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Originally Posted by GAsux
IS it also possible that there are people who are robbing shotguns from Wal-Mart not because they need it to protect their families, but simply because they can? Or people who are smashing bricks into ATM machines who DIDN"T "lose everything" but are simply doing it to take advantage of the situation?
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Look, I'm not saying what they are doing is OK. I think it's pretty fucked up.
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what about the small business owners? What about the people who own the jewelry stores, the grociery stores, etc who likely lost just as much and now have to deal with people robbing thier stores because they somehow deserve it or are justified because the world and their city owes them for what they've lost?
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insurance covers theft. it doesn't cover "acts of God". but i feel sorry for the small business owners, too.
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Like I said, from experience, for every one person in LA who looted/rioted for a perceived "cause" there were five who did it becuase no one was there to stop them. There was no noble cause, no self preservation. It was plain and simply lawlessness because they could.
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REAL anarchy (not that romanticised bullshit OaO likes to drone on about at excruciating length) is like that. It's shitty. But be real, when civil society GOES BYE BYE, so do most people's ethics. Whatever, it's fucked up. But who do you guys think you are to sit in your cozy chairs in your climate controlled environment and pass judgement on people you've never met in a situation you'll (I sincerely hope) never face? Just give it a rest. You wanna put energy into this disaster - let's do something positive.
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Originally Posted by GAsux
I suppose it's possible that it happened but I don't recall hearing stories of widespread looting in the wake of the tsunami. I would venture to guess that many of the people affected by that were equally destitute, if not more so, lost just as much, etc.
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i'm sure most of the folks affected by the tsunami did what they had to do to survive. breaking into wal-mart probably wasn't an option for most of them, but don't you remember hearing anything about people hoarding relief supplies? jostling for power and control over who distributed aid in Sri Lanka? all the folks talking about it on the radio didn't really help the aid get to the people any faster.
so, i guess... what's your point? poor people sure are rotten?
rich people can be just as rotten, they just steal more subtley.
example: i just heard Mayor Ray Nagin ordered 1,500 police officers to leave their search-and-rescue mission tonight and return to the streets to stop looting.
people's property has just been valued higher than people's lives.
i'm not happy about any of this.