Humanity....

[GAsux]

You know the "shut the fuck up" portion of your argument is getting a bit old. God forbid someone have a different opinion. I don't suppose I'll know for certain what I would do if a Cat 5 hurricane decimated my city.

But regardless, I don't understand your hostility. You put forth your scenario of what you'd do in that situation, or what seems reasonable and that's fair enough. Again I'm not knocking those folks.

IS it also possible that there are people who are robbing shotguns from Wal-Mart not because they need it to protect their families, but simply because they can? Or people who are smashing bricks into ATM machines who DIDN"T "lose everything" but are simply doing it to take advantage of the situation?

And finally, before you get back to the shut the fuck upping, I admire your compassion and apologist nature, but what about the small business owners? What about the people who own the jewelry stores, the grociery stores, etc who likely lost just as much and now have to deal with people robbing thier stores because they somehow deserve it or are justified because the world and their city owes them for what they've lost?

Like I said, from experience, for every one person in LA who looted/rioted for a perceived "cause" there were five who did it becuase no one was there to stop them. There was no noble cause, no self preservation. It was plain and simply lawlessness because they could.

I suppose it's possible that it happened but I don't recall hearing stories of widespread looting in the wake of the tsunami. I would venture to guess that many of the people affected by that were equally destitute, if not more so, lost just as much, etc.