I hope you feel that same way if you are ever on your death bed and you have the choice of either certain painless death by morphine or certain painful death in a day or two.
I caught The English Patient last weekend on tv. It's too complicated to explain but it was troubling to watch. In other words, it wasn't a comedy. Once was enough for me.
Since you support this lawless act you are presumably equally willing to forgive the looters and robbers in NO and maybe even the shooters because they were just trying to survive?
Situational ethics like yours are at the center of the decline of society. If it's against the law it should be punished. I guess you can't grasp that concept.