Praying for tidal waves
Aug. 30th, 2005 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
To all of those people out there with no sympathy for the people left behind, those who are doing what they need to to survive...
I hope you all know how to fucking swim.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
I hope you all know how to fucking swim.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
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Date: 2005-08-30 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-30 08:11 pm (UTC)Nobody is defending the people stealing from ATMs or jewelry stores. Frankly if I evacuated and came home to find someone had been able to use whatever food I left behind to survive, I'd be grateful that it hadn't gone to waste.
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Date: 2005-08-30 09:00 pm (UTC)Though I am firmly in your camp on the looting issue, the above is a bit unfair. Brit made valid points and carefully qualified her statement. The quantity of media coverage she views neither validates nor negates an opinion on looting.
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Date: 2005-08-30 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-30 09:22 pm (UTC)I'm not talking about missing cans of food or tampons. I'm talking about expensive electronics...
But yes, I see your point that opining about a "concrete" situation requires information.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:34 pm (UTC)"new orleans wasn't fucking destroyed utterly! YAY! how annoying, my tv is gone."
you're having a snit fit over a television set? jesus. they got lucky. so lucky. because 20 miles to the east would have been all it took to wipe out the whole fucking town and everyone abandoned in it. I'm sure you could have gotten weepy over an entire economic sector losing their lives, but now you're getting all fucking het up about stuff that was left behind when the assumption ran that it was going to be gone anyway.
That blows my mind, it seriously does.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:36 pm (UTC)fuck.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-30 08:36 pm (UTC)I've been reading a lot today about what was ironically named the Catastrophic Hurricane Evacuation Plan. The more I read it, the more I've been siding with the looters.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:39 pm (UTC)I mean nobody is saying that taking dvd players isn't wrong. but shit happens when you lift up your head and say "sweet Legba, I'm not dead! ASHE! let's go get some grub."
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:28 pm (UTC)I'm not wishing for a tidal wave, though.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-30 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-30 08:38 pm (UTC)I don't wish a tidal wave either. I have a belief that karma is always repaid. The evil will get theirs.
it's all about balance
Date: 2005-08-30 08:53 pm (UTC)to me it's not about Stealing or Not Stealing, it's about levels of suffering. There is no excuse to steal items that are not Food/Clothing/Shelter provided you NEED those items. Provided you share those items, provided you GIVE those items to those who need, to those who may need them more than you do.
karma knows that trick. It's not black nor white.
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Date: 2005-08-31 12:13 am (UTC)It's gone.