When 'looting' is OK. by Becket Adams | August 29, 2017 05:31 PM Print this article. Or like Dayton, Ohio, after the 1913 flood.
Historians disagree about how many were actually killed. A looter is a thief. Though looting starts spontaneously, how quickly it stops appears to depend on how rapid and severe a response it meets. Because of stricter building codes, far more people survived in middle-class Chile than in impoverished Haiti.
For my money, the justifications for looting are a) actual necessity and/or b) inevitable destruction.
If they were in that supermarket only to appropriate essentials, they did nothing wrong.
And some authorities let the police look the other way at looters taking only basics.
After all, they said, there are bigger concerns in Houston than a small group of so-called looters. The Biden campaign announced Saturday that it opposes the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The worst rampage in New York’s history was started not by a natural disaster, but by draft numbers being drawn. Residents who formed self-defense posses were quoted saying that the “human earthquake” was worse than the geological one.
This is the case in obvious and urgent necessity when the only way to provide for immediate, essential needs (food, shelter, clothing . New York’s 1965 blackout was famous for the citywide bonhomie it produced. Chicagoans looted in a record blizzard in 1967.
Stealing TVs slides into a grey area. “Let it be given out that three men have already been shot down without mercy,” he told reporters. President Trump’s selection of Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is a cap on his campaign’s relentless attempt to woo Catholic voters. A looter acts on opportunity, not necessity. Stealing food to survive is accepted by most. Hopefully, those so-called looters will do right by that store and pay later for what they took.
Three days into one of the worst hurricanes to land on U.S. soil, and some Texans have grown desperate. Hurricane Harvey has claimed at least 14 lives, and officials fear that number will grow.
Khartoum’s support for Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups is well-established.
For example, if your stealing food in order for your family to eat and survive then i feel that it is fine. In 1863, poor laborers, most of them Irish, rebelled against conscription for the Civil War; the all-Irish “Fighting 69th” had just been virtually wiped out at Gettysburg.
I think we have all seen pictures of both natural disasters and riots where there are people looting. In other words, they appeared to be acting out of necessity as opposed to opportunity. The Democratic National Convention made that very clear.
Sudan has been on the list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1993, when the country was a veritable “who’s who” of international terrorists.
The mobs lynched blacks and torched a black orphanage, attacked the mansions of anti-slavery Republicans and burned the mayor’s home.
Though looting starts spontaneously, how quickly it stops appears to depend on how rapid and severe a response it meets. Legally, as Anatole France observed, the starving may not filch even bread. MSNBC host and noted anti-Semite Al Sharpton is a one-note samba. It is hard to name a single disruption in the social order, natural or man-made, that has not triggered looting somewhere.
is to put at one's disposal and use the property of others.
Yes, a starving man could sell a TV for food, but it’s never clear his motives are that pure.
Houston is in trouble, and its residents need all the help they can get.
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