It was a euphemism for pete's sakeThen why would the OP use weasel words like "acquiring."
Really? So you come across a dead person in the woods, their bag is full of canned goods....it would be theft to take those canned good to feed yourself and your family?Dead or not, taking other people's property still is theft.
Who said anything about stealing food from somebody who is starving?If I were starving would I steal food? Probably. Would I steal it from someone else who was starving? I really don't know.
Really, so the world has ended, your vehicle has sh*t the bed and you're still 400miles from where you need to be to ensure your family's survival, there's a car lot sitting there with a whole bunch of vehicles that nobody is going to sell, you wouldn't take one, thereby giving your family a better chance of survival? No instead you'd dump the majority of your preps since you can't transport them on foot, and hope your family can hike the 400 miles....good luckWould I say "well, I can't afford to stock everything now so I'll steal a better truck if I get the opportunity"? No.
How many times do I have to say it, I'm talking about a true TEOTWAWKI situation. Society is GONE, government is GONE.Justify it any way you want, it's still theft. Is it right or wrong, I can't say because of the exigent circumstances, but it's still theft. And the Omega Man situation is about the only one I see where there won't be a return to some form of law, and history bears this out.