Then you understand what I am saying.
Look, by your collective posts, you think looting's fine.
What gives you that idea? I said emergency needed supplies could be obtained without moral problem. I said nothing at all about looting for fun and profit.
They're not taking food and water, they are hauling out the innards of entire stores.....it's not all food and water, blankets and medicine...it's looting.
Duh. Some people can't follow a detailed argument, I guess. Yes, people are commiting heinous criminal acts in looting goods that are not a matter of survival.
I think everyone condemns that.
But rational people will see that there are legitimate arguments to be made for "stealing" items for genuine legitimate survival.
Can you see how a person can support the one without supporting the other?
SD
yes, the one; I have posted, numerous times, it's one thing to take food/water, and I have posted more numerously, how wrong it is to be stealing t.v.'s, 10 prs. of jeans, and jewelry....but I get called a creep for condemning the looters....those are the ones who cannot follow along.
Your call, but I'd let it go, Dave. Most here know where you're coming from, but you can spend every second you have addressing those who don't get it and still not change their minds. My policy is to say it once, and if they don't get it then, whatever follows is on their head.
I am in complete agreement with you on this issue. In the current situation, if my procuring much needed survival supplies leads directly to mine and others survival, Heck yes I would do it, and would not want to have to carry around the dead weight of someone struggling with the moral question of my getting those supplies. Doesn't mean I wouldn't see to their survival needs, but they would have to have that discourse on an internal basis and STFU.
When it comes to situations like this, If I have stayed able bodied and have the wherewithal, I am morally obligated to see to those in my care. Period. Restitution can be made when I can get some clean undies and a cup of coffee and a job.