>It's a cultural thing. I'm not surprised it isn't happening, but IMO, as time goes on and people get desparate, it'll happen.
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>>Considering the earthquake and tsunami and ongoing nuclear problems have left 10s of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless cold and hungry, where are all the looters and shoplifters and murderers and such like were crawling around New Orleans?
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>>Previous pathetic excuses for their (New Orleans residents) actions were based on how terrible the tragedy was.
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>>New Orleans after the hurricane and flood pales in comparison with the ongoing catastrophe in Japan.
Yes, there have been many times in urban America where the level of desperation following a natural disaster ( like an unpopular jury verdict ) has let to the natural desire to restore justice by liberating a TV set from a Korean.
As you say, it is cultural.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
