Mexicans loot shops after Hurricane Otis devastates Acapulco - eviltoast
  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Looting” is taking luxury items, TVs, jewelry, etc.

    Taking food, sanitary supplies, bottled water, etc. from destroyed stores is “salvaging”.

    • drunkenmonkie2@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I mean they’re doing both. Not that I think theres anything wrong with looting from big corporations like walmart.

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        1 year ago

        The bare essentials only. Water, cand food, a PS5, antibiotics, gas.

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      1 year ago

      eh… it’s stealing any way you look at it. it’s not like they’re tracking down the shop owner and paying them for the “salvaged” goods…

      • Birdie@thelemmy.club
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        1 year ago

        This exact thing will happen when society collapses, and we will all call it survival of the fittest.

        What would you have these poor people do? Sit on top of the rumble of their homes and watch their kids die of thirst and hunger? Watch them suffer from open wounds? Or take some water, some canned foods, antibiotic cream and gauze from a fully insured store?

        The ones taking tvs and things like that are foolish, at least in the short term, but they may be able to trade those items for supplies later.

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          I wonder if Walmart would have been smart to prepare survival items ahead of time, put it out on the curb, and say “Here, take this.” Anything past that would be theft of course, but Walmart could get positive PR for “donating” stuff they were going to lose anyway.