True Selco admits and talks about stealing from a nearby bombed out distillery. Just as true I have no use for those who take advantage of a situation and loot/steal for personal gain, greed and or just because they can.
Since Selco’s ‘crime’ was committed while trapped in a city under siege with artillery and mortars dropping shells right and left, while gangs raped, pillaged and killed at will and snipers filled the streets with dead men, women and children, I refuse to pass judgment as I have know idea what I would do or what I would be willing to do to keep my family alive within such a small section of Hell brought to earth. As Shakespeare said: A man with wife and child has given hostages to fate and I pray that I am never tested. That said I will not throw the first stone.
But I will say this I understand better a thief who’s motive is profit or great need more than one who as the Bible says:
“They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.” Psalms 64:3
or those:
“With perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord” Proverbs 6:14
For their acts of strife and discord profit them not and brings them no peace, but only stokes the fire of hate they have for those who have in truth done them no harm. Their need for vengeance and retribution is such that their words no mater how hateful can not sated their anger, but only causes it to grow and grow to a point where in the end it becomes so intense it burns them up. Such people I do not understand nor do I wish to, as the hate they carry is too ugly for for a man to contemplate.
...for 1 corned beef can you could have woman for couple of hours(sounds bad, but it was reality)...rifle ammo and of course food, we fight like animals for that...It is not important witch side had right in that war...there were normal people like you and me, fathers, granddads, decent folks, who robed and killed, there was not too much good and bad guys, most of us was gray, ready for everything...that was not Cristian vs Muslim war, it was civil war, with lot of switching between sides...i am not going into religious stories,...i am not belong to any dogma, Muslim or Christian...i am not here to discuss...religion or anything similar...my wife is different ethnicity, and she is also a Catholic, i am not, and to answer you : no i am not going to shoot her...
Now if we could just get back to theorizing about which big box store a pepper and his group would want to take over and defend, all would be right in the world. I’m still thinking Fleet Farm.