Put yourself in someone else's shoes
Picture this.
It's one or two days before payday, you are broke and I do mean broke, no money, maybe a 10 dollar bill to your name.
Many of us live paycheck to paycheck, so it's not that hard to imagine. If you have a car, you have no gas to speak of.
You are considered an outcast by societies rule of thumb,{BTW rule of thumb comes from the olden days when you could not beat your wife with a stick fatter than your thumb} you live on the edge of the law anyways, maybe not a real criminal but will take the easy buck.
Your possessions are the bare minimum, your refrigerator is almost empty most the month.
Suddenly calamity strikes, be it earth quake, flood or disease.
You have no money to escape, you have children and are angry anyways, the heat of summer is already got you on the edge.
You watch as everyone with means to leave has already left.
The most simple things in life are taken from you, no water to drink, no water to flush toilets, no food, no shelter.
Your kids are screaming because they do not understand what is happening to them, they are thirsty and hungry.
What would you do? Would you steal food? other things? Would your anger boil over and cause you to do things you would have never done?