Humanity....

[Preechr]

Originally Posted by ziggytrix

But be real, when civil society GOES BYE BYE, so do most people's ethics. Whatever, it's fucked up.

Maybe from now on I'll only post in response to extremely "right-wing" things supposedly liberal folks say to point out how a lot of you confuse liberalism (or conservatism for that matter) with authoritarianism.

Ziggy, how do you feel about the idea that society and the structure it "provides" GIVES US our sense of ethics? If I were Judge Roy Moore and I wanted to move to your state in order to join the government and GIVE YOU a better sense of ethics, would you be Ok with that? What you've said so far leads me to agree *gasp* with AChimp's assassment that you are a closet looter yourself.

Society and government comes from us. We don't exist or thrive because society allows us the privilege. If your sense of ethics is something you get from society, doesn't that mean that the only reason you're not completely un-ethical is because you're simply keeping up appearances for your neighbors?

You also seem to have a hard time drawing a line between those that steal bread and those that steal Plasma Televisions. The motivations are entirely different, aren't they?

Since I'm already typing, my solution would be to fence the whole area off and let it stabilize itself once all those that don't want to live in MadMaxWaterWorld are safely out. Give it about two months, time which could be spent devising a good way to pump all that water out, and send some teams in to hunt down/ dig up the piles of jewelry, Nikes and useless electronic booty the looters hoarded up and likely died defending.

Whatever is recovered can be turned over to the insurance companies which actually DO cover acts of God like windstorms and whatnot. They don't cover FLOODs unless flood insurance is purchased separately, and they don't cover those that didn't purchase coverage, and some policies might have funky stipulations for those that live in coastal areas, but if a windstorm knocks your house or business down and you have insurance, your stuff is likely covered.

Insurance companies have gone out of business due to previous hurricanes. That's probably not because they don't cover hurricanes, wouldn't you think?

Chances are those that are stealing TVs in New Orleans haven't suffered some sort of major change in their ethics and/or personalities because they "lost everything they had." It's much more likely that they are the same people now as they were before the storm and they probably never had much to lose in any sense.