You (or someone) pinged me when you posted: "......you're going to run out of a lot of things. It is pretty much every man, woman and child for himself..."
There were rapes and murders inside the CC, you said the story of mutilated bodies was BS, I consider that pure BS, civilized human beings do not react that way, nor is it every man for himself just because he runs out of "THINGS."
In dire times of imminent danger, if one does not look out for the helpless and defenseless, mankind is in danger of becoming less than animals and turning into monsters themselves. And it is the monsters who would mutilate bodies.
Huh. I am not sure how I pinged you. I'm sorry if I did, because I was answering four very specific questions in post 52..
The story of the rapes and mutilated bodies is, as far as I can tell, uncorroborated at this point. That does not mean it is not true. It just means that rumor runs rampant during disasters and I feel that going into hysterics over things that we don't know for sure is not helpful.
The BS comment was aimed at the story that prisoners were released by Mayor Nagin before the storm. It has been pretty thoroughly debunked here on FR. It DID NOT happen. In fact, prisoners where tied together and sat on the freeway for quite sometime. That WAS a rumor it appears. I just don't want to fall for it again.
My comment about "every man, woman and child for himself" was related specifically to the power of the Federal Government to protect you during the initial phases of a crisis, not related to our personal MORAL responsibility as citizens to do our best to protect the weakest among us.
I agree with what you say completely. But I think you seriously misunderstood the points I was making because they were so far out of context.
I am sorry for the confusion.