I need help understanding this mindset

[coffeecrazy1]

So...let me get this straight:

A natural disaster dissolves all property rights? Really. Guess I'll remember to burn my house down next time a tornado comes.

The looting would not have been a big deal if it had been foraging for food. I think even the hardest of us libertarian free-market types would agree that people have to able to survive. But, I defy anyone to tell me that a plasma screen TV is both a necessity of life, and understandable in terms of what gets looted...especially in a city not expected to have power for several months.

I remember this one time I was having a very difficult personal experience... not as bad as surving the NO disaster... but it was bad.

I wonder if all the Democrats and liberals in this forum would have been supportive of me coming to their sheltered little communities and stealing from them?

[coffeecrazy1]

That brings up another point. This line of thinking seems to suggest that stealing is justified by hardship...any stealing, not just survival needs. They're poor, and what little they have is gone, so it's justifiable that they steal back what was lost, plus interest. Somehow, it's owed to them, or something.

Wish I'd known about this when Bonfire collapsed at Texas A&M...all the mental and emotional trauma I suffered could really have been soothed by a brand new stereo system or a new car.

Can't believe I'm agreeing 100% with Bicycles on something. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[PokerMatt]

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They have insurance is the stupidest arguement I've ever heard for anything. Try paying car insurance in NJ and you'll see the effect of sky high insurance rates (a result of insurance companies having to pay claims all the time).

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NJ also has the highest population density in the country and a no-fault system. So blame north jersey (I grew up in south jersey so I may be biased). Or you can do what I did: move across the Delaware to PA and pay about half of what you pay in NJ [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[tek]

Not to hijack or anything, but is Larry King getting too old? Whatever criticism we have of Celine, after she finishes her rant Larry asks her to sing a song [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]