Re: London - riots
Im not sure how religious these people are. As for dignity and self-respect, that again goes back to the protesters not admitting to the moral authority of the social fabric, in which case theres no conflict with dignity/self-respect. If you saw water as a right and felt that a particular corporation was responsible for hoarding all the water with collusion by the state.. in an event where it was possible for you to sieze some of it back from the corporation without ramification you might not feel it against your dignity to do so. That is just my reading of the psychology of atleast some of the looters. Im sure theres others who feel they’re doing wrong but just want to get away with it, like robbers/crooks are on any given weekday. Opportunism isnt exactly a novel phenomenon when it comes to looting during rioting.