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The question becomes how many of your personal principles are you going to violate in order to survive?
It's very easy for me to sit here in my dry, comfortable, well-lit apartment and condemn those in New Orleans for stealing. But over in the Big Easy things just took a turn for the worst and people are doing what they feel is necessary to survive. It's hard to look at it as profiteering given how much has been lost there. With billions of dollars in property damage and four digit casualty counts, these people have all lost much more than they're going to steal from a Walmart.
I don't know if that makes it right. I don't think it's up to me to make that sort of decision. I can't even say whether or not I'd be right in there with them; your view on life changes when everything you know goes down the shitter.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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