“Looting” is taking luxury items, TVs, jewelry, etc.
Taking food, sanitary supplies, bottled water, etc. from destroyed stores is “salvaging”.
I mean they’re doing both. Not that I think theres anything wrong with looting from big corporations like walmart.
The bare essentials only. Water, cand food, a PS5, antibiotics, gas.
eh… it’s stealing any way you look at it. it’s not like they’re tracking down the shop owner and paying them for the “salvaged” goods…
This exact thing will happen when society collapses, and we will all call it survival of the fittest.
What would you have these poor people do? Sit on top of the rumble of their homes and watch their kids die of thirst and hunger? Watch them suffer from open wounds? Or take some water, some canned foods, antibiotic cream and gauze from a fully insured store?
The ones taking tvs and things like that are foolish, at least in the short term, but they may be able to trade those items for supplies later.
I wonder if Walmart would have been smart to prepare survival items ahead of time, put it out on the curb, and say “Here, take this.” Anything past that would be theft of course, but Walmart could get positive PR for “donating” stuff they were going to lose anyway.
Then stealing is okay sometimes
What else are you supposed to do when you have no food because your house was destroyed and all the stores are closed?
In other news: see what happens after every devastating hurricane. Anyone else remember Katrina?
I remember Andrew. The same thing happened. The U.S. Army eventually stepped in and made bi weekly supply deliveries in coordinaton with the National Guard. Back in those days the Red Cross was complete garbage.
remember this?