***As much as looting may tick us off, property and things are not worth a human life,***
Years ago, I knew some missionaries to Haiti under the rule of Papa Doc. One day they were walking through a market place and someone stole something and took off running. Almost immediately the Ton-Ton-Macutes were on him and beat the man half to death.
The missionaries were horrified at what they saw when a merchant took them aside and told them that this had to be. If they let one get away with it, everyone would do it and they would have everything stolen from them and there could be no market at all.
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“We hang horse thieves, not in order that men shall be hanged, but in order that horses shall not be stolen.”
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