Reply #8: chances are, you wouldn't find what you were looking for anyway [View All]

[puddycat]

the professional criminals would have already stolen everthing. The first thing the underbelly of New Orleans did was break into stores holding (1) drugs (2) guns (3) expensive tvs, dvds, computers. So I suppose then, if you were convinced that looting was your only option to find your medicine, that looting private residences was your remaining option, unless you wanted to attack and loot hospitals en mass with gang members, like happned yesterday.

So the question is, at what point would you decide you would choose another option, like exerting all your energy at getting help, even if you had to start walking, like many law-abiding poor citizens did today to get the hell out of New Orleans.

Or, if and when you broke into someone's home to steal their parkison's medicine, supposing you were lucky enough to find a place with that particular drug, would you think about what would happen if that person came back for his medication? Would you rationalize it by thinking the person would never come back? At what point would your human-ness be lost? At what point would survival make you an animal, and not a dignified human being?

I'm not attacking. I'm just asking, for the purpose of making us all think. The thin veneer of civilization we all walk upon is like a pane of glass, easily broken and impossible to mend.