What is wrong with these people? What has happened to human decency? Why can't people treat others like they want to tbe treated. I just heard on our local news that a man has shot and killed his OWN sister in Hattisburg, MS over a d&%m bag of ice!
Tempers are flaring, road rage, theft...this is just totally nuts!
What in the h*(& are people thinking....
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Re: What in the h*(& are people thinking....
scorpdream wrote:What is wrong with these people? What has happened to human decency? Why can't people treat others like they want to tbe treated. I just heard on our local news that a man has shot and killed his OWN sister in Hattisburg, MS over a d&%m bag of ice!
Tempers are flaring, road rage, theft...this is just totally nuts!
When disasters happen, people become their own worst enemy
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This is what social scientists have said for years. If you take away the trappings of civilization the rule of the strongest is what will occur. If you can take what you need you live if you can't you find some other way (barter etc) or you do not live.
Civilization serves to hide man from his baser nature.
TIm
Civilization serves to hide man from his baser nature.
TIm
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The examples of not-so-decent (but distinctively human) behavior in the midst of great disasters has been extensively documented and researched, and some of the examples are so bizarre and extreme, you have a hard time believing them even when the analyses are from scholarly publications.
I'm not kidding about that. The aftermath of one particular airliner crash in the Florida Everglades is one of the most bizarre things I've ever read about in my life.
I'm not kidding about that. The aftermath of one particular airliner crash in the Florida Everglades is one of the most bizarre things I've ever read about in my life.
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How will these people act when civilization returns to normal for them? What happens when they are shipped to Houston? They won't have their guns and tv's anymore. Why waste your time on that.
I have a feeling that some looters may feel they are in better control of their lives in New Orleans.
I have a feeling that some looters may feel they are in better control of their lives in New Orleans.
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Ya know I hate to say it, but as I'm a baby boomer, when I born and raised, we knew right from wrong. We knew mom was there after school when we came in the door. Asking about our day. She was also there if I wanted to walk home from school, for lunch! Again, to ask how my day was going. There were lines that we didn't cross - we didn't talk back to teachers, we respected our elders, again - we knew right from wrong!
Sadly, I suspect this is a reflection on how our way of life has changed in just mere decades.
Mary
Sadly, I suspect this is a reflection on how our way of life has changed in just mere decades.
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Government has no greater responsibility than the protection of it's citizens. The engineering problems that created this disaster aside I believe taking control back of the city by WHATEVER means necessary is the only solution at the moment. To put it simply the use of deadly force should now be authorized.
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Downdraft wrote:Government has no greater responsibility than the protection of it's citizens. The engineering problems that created this disaster aside I believe taking control back of the city by WHATEVER means necessary is the only solution at the moment. To put it simply the use of deadly force should now be authorized.
Should have been authorized on Monday. This was completely and utterly predictable.
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blueeyes_austin wrote:Downdraft wrote:Government has no greater responsibility than the protection of it's citizens. The engineering problems that created this disaster aside I believe taking control back of the city by WHATEVER means necessary is the only solution at the moment. To put it simply the use of deadly force should now be authorized.
Should have been authorized on Monday. This was completely and utterly predictable.
Yes, it should have been foreseen and it should have been authorized on Monday.
This type of behavior escalates quickly. "If everyone else is looting, I'd better get mine...." "If they have guns, I need a gun to defend myself" and "there's no other way" and so forth and so on--violence begets violence.
It needs to be handled quickly and unequvocally or you see what we are now seeing in New Orleans.
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