Efforts to help our community during times of tragedy are to be commended, but is it moral to offer assistance to the needy through the theft from others?
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has placed a rush order of two million meals to be delivered to Floyd Bennett New York Harbor Parks, and Lakehurst New Jersey.
The solicitation was amended less than four hours later for providers to provide a quote of four million meals, preferably of the self-heating variety.
Helping our community during natural disasters is, well, a natural response. When we see our neighbors suffering unnecessarily, we step up to help however we can. What we should never tolerate is a mob-like organization which legally-plunders us to offer "charity" through violence. Applying a term of legality to the act of plunder makes that effort no less morally deficient.
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