Quote Originally Posted by poop
The law makes no such distinction. And since your previously professed concern was with upholding law and order, why do you?
You're doing your best to misinterpret my previous comments, not sure if' it's deliberately insincere or if you really can't understand the difference.

The law does make a distinction. Looting is taking private property in a time of national crisis. Key word... private. Government property is not private.

More to the point, the moral distinction is that looting of private property causes the public to lose faith in the ability of state security to protect the general population. Social security is severely compromised. The tension spreads around the entire country, into neighbourhoods and towns, instead of focussed on strategic sites in cities. Looting of private property is a serious escalation of a crisis. It is an attack on civilians, not an attack on government. That's a big, big difference.

Which is why I'm surprised you don't see a distinction.