Is it looting – or surviving?

 

Watching the news a couple of weeks ago and they were reporting on Hurricane Dorian and the massive destruction in the Bahamas. Looting was a major topic discussed and they even had an interview with one of those “looters”. The news reporter asked the woman how she felt taking items that didn’t belong to her and what did she take during her looting. She explained that she did not feel comfortable taking things, but, felt she had no choice. She went on to say that she went to grocery stores and took food, water, and diapers. She said there are a lot of people that have no food, no water, and there are young children with no diapers.

Here’s my question: Is this looting – or surviving?

When I heard the reporter say that he had interviewed one of the admitted looters I expected they had taken TV’s, computers, shoes, etc. After the interview, I thought to myself – “That’s not looting. That’s surviving!”

Am I wrong?

From my perspective, there was a literal SHTF situation going on and what she did was called surviving.

 

 

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