Looters
Jan 14th 2011 | 3:19 pm
#46
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Re: Looters
hate to disagree pp (
) but stealing a loaf of bread because you have no access to food isn't one thing... Imagine a queue of 300 hungry people and a sack of rice has just been delievered to a feeding station in a disaster area... It happens in developing countries all the time.... Everyone can have a cup of rice that will keep them alive for another 24 hours... But some bugger steals 2 cups, this means one person less gets their cup of rice and dies... tantamount to murder!
In times of disaster it is MORE important to keep law and order and maintain a high degree of civilised behaviour.....
) but stealing a loaf of bread because you have no access to food isn't one thing... Imagine a queue of 300 hungry people and a sack of rice has just been delievered to a feeding station in a disaster area... It happens in developing countries all the time.... Everyone can have a cup of rice that will keep them alive for another 24 hours... But some bugger steals 2 cups, this means one person less gets their cup of rice and dies... tantamount to murder!In times of disaster it is MORE important to keep law and order and maintain a high degree of civilised behaviour.....
Mandy
Jan 14th 2011 | 3:59 pm
#47
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Re: Looters
hate to disagree pp () but stealing a loaf of bread because you have no access to food isn't one thing... Imagine a queue of 300 hungry people and a sack of rice has just been delievered to a feeding station in a disaster area... It happens in developing countries all the time.... Everyone can have a cup of rice that will keep them alive for another 24 hours... But some bugger steals 2 cups, this means one person less gets their cup of rice and dies... tantamount to murder!
In times of disaster it is MORE important to keep law and order and maintain a high degree of civilised behaviour.....
) but stealing a loaf of bread because you have no access to food isn't one thing... Imagine a queue of 300 hungry people and a sack of rice has just been delievered to a feeding station in a disaster area... It happens in developing countries all the time.... Everyone can have a cup of rice that will keep them alive for another 24 hours... But some bugger steals 2 cups, this means one person less gets their cup of rice and dies... tantamount to murder!In times of disaster it is MORE important to keep law and order and maintain a high degree of civilised behaviour.....
There has to be law and order yes, and rationing as well but I didnt mean that, I meant in a situation where one stands alone or if they dont, food is allocated on a desperate and equal basis. I know what I meant but not good at explaining it.
Jan 14th 2011 | 4:16 pm
#48
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Re: Looters
I put my post on this thread as a bit Tongue in cheek. However I find many peoples reaction to theft extreme. Hang them, drown them etc etc. It's like the opinion pages for The Daily Mail - middle England, White female conservative voters
Jan 14th 2011 | 4:29 pm
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Re: Looters
I know that the criminal classes suffer from social deprivation
But when my home was burgled all I could think of was castration
ooooooh I aint got the blues... I got those anxt ridden middle class whites
(Fascinating Aida)
But when my home was burgled all I could think of was castration
ooooooh I aint got the blues... I got those anxt ridden middle class whites
(Fascinating Aida)
Jan 14th 2011 | 4:42 pm
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Jan 14th 2011 | 5:43 pm
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Re: Looters
My point is that when we were burgled, I wanted to castrate them, poke their eyes out with a hot knife and all sorts of other totally improbable actions. People saying they should be hung drawn and quartered is no more than showing their anger at such behaviour. Simply saying 'oh I hope they get a nasty fine' doesn't really do it. It's the same as the Mayor of Ipswich saying he'd like to use them as flood markers.
Just saying like.
that when we were burgled, I wanted to castrate them, poke their eyes out with a hot knife and all sorts of other totally improbable actions. People saying they should be hung drawn and quartered is no more than showing their anger at such behaviour. Simply saying 'oh I hope they get a nasty fine' doesn't really do it. It's the same as the Mayor of Ipswich saying he'd like to use them as flood markers.Just saying like.
No Way!!!
Jan 14th 2011 | 7:35 pm
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