[SunnySide]

Did they show the video with a street full of people walking away with anything and everything they could get their hands on? Made me sick.

I saw a clip on CNN where they had arrested a woman and her buggy was full of diapers.



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You know, I'm sitting here thinking, Seriously, maybe some of these people have a legitmate "need" to grab some stuff. They are too poor to go anywhere, they probably were on welfare already(don't debate it now) and now they have NOTHING for maybe a month or more to come. If I were a mother of an infant I'd take what I could for the time being too. Right now, in this situation, this natural disaster, ALL THINGS ARE RELATIVE.

[CedarDave]

Seriously, maybe some of these people have a legitmate "need" to grab some stuff. They are too poor to go anywhere, they probably were on welfare already(don't debate it now) and now they have NOTHING for maybe a month or more to come.

Maybe after four or five days with no outside assistance that would be justified for survival, but after six hours or less, no. And given the upcoming level of effort to aid people in that city, she should have plenty of diapers to last her many months.

[the Deejay]

More than one realizes, most steal for the fun
of it & to see if they can get away with it.

One can always use cloth diapers. It was done
for centuries, long before disposablr diapers
were heard of.

[ladyjane]

maybe some of these people have a legitmate "need" to grab some stuff.

I am trying to understand the concept of having a legitimate need to steal.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

ALL THINGS ARE RELATIVE.

That succinctly sums up the philosophical position that John Paul the Great successfully debunked in "Veritatis Splendoris". But I will not address this further now.

[mhking]

Seriously, maybe some of these people have a legitmate "need" to grab some stuff.

No one has a "legitimate need" to grab furniture or a television or anything else that doesn't belong to them.

[jamily]

IMHO, it's not looting when you are grabbing neccessities, and you aren't causing more damage than the *situation* already made.

A pot, a can of sterno, 5 cans of that nasty stuff they call food, and a pack of diapers... These things don't fall into "shoot on sight" for me. Sounds more like "Thank you GOD" for providing a way for me to care for my own when I can't do it otherwise.

Now, if I'm packing a plasma display and sound system with that, or using tools to help make items accessible, then by all means, put a cap in me.

Sometimes the help you need can't wait for the "organized relief effort". I know I'd do what I had to do if it were my family, and pay the price for it when I could.

[TaxRelief]

I have been a red cross volunteer through two hurricanes, and I can assure you that diapers are readily available at all shelters. Formula, pedialyte and diapers are priority supplies provided by the Red Cross.