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Consider this - a hobo rustles through your garbage before the garbo's take it from your verge. They take a half-empty bottle of wine. What's that worth, 10-15 years? I mean, that hobo sure didn't need that wine to survive. He might even barter it away for a hamburger, or something terrible. Why doesn't he get a job and get his lazy arse of welfare? He might be crazy from crack or mentally ill. No chance of rehab, so a bullet to the head must be the only option.
Seriously, are looters that much of a menace to society that you would have them removed from it entirely? We can all sit back here and judge those who lost everything in New Orleans, but these people were there, and they were the ones that lost everything. They would very probably get lesser sentences if they marched into the store with a gun and demanded all the money in the till. It's political showboating and those that got sentenced where nothing but pawns.
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"'There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,' says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex."
-- From an IGN game review.
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