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I offended the daylights out of some people once by trying to defend "salvage" while condemning looting.
"salvage" was the people walking around downwind picking up merchandise from dozens of demolished stores that was scattered for miles. I can accept people collecting what is essentially ownerless flotsam. a piece of personal property that has value, however, is not free game just because you find a rolex laying on your roof a week later. Someone still owns that, and the owner should be found. Looting is a very different thing; it is deliberately stealing.
We had a sex toy business that was just vaporized. not a brick left. East of town, you had toys dropping all over the country side.
Picking up this stuff was salvage. going into academy and stealing the firearms was looting. Entering any building and taking anything takes you past the line and into theft.
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