Maybe, but on the other hand we used to have this thing called ethics...doing the right thing, even when no one is looking, much less when everyone is looking.
A neighbor in need is exactly where we should focus our attention, and if its your profession, I think its callous to stand by and watch suffering when you have the capacity, much less the duty by profession, to help.
There is a lot wrong with this story. Bad acting all around.
The deliberately, after forethought, knowing that someone else’s house burned down last year because those people had not paid the fee, CHOSE not to pay.
They knowingly chose not to pay.
I’d say they deserved what they got. Part of being an adult is taking care of your Stuff. In this case, fire protection cost all of $75.00 a year. To knowingly refuse to pay that fee is stupid beyond belief.
If they had not had the warning of the same thing having happened last year, I’d cut them some slack. But these two shack-ups deserve no pity whatsoever.