[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by JCarterVA

There are a lot of people suffering right now. This pandemic has been rough on so many levels. There are a lot of groups and individuals (adults, teens and kids) trying to help those going through tough times. It does suck to have to have packages stolen. I sincerely doubt it is by someone needing help. It is someone bored or doing it for fun. If you know about organizations in your area offering help share it within your neighborhood. Last week, our city distributed bags with Hand sanitizer, masks and information in English and Spanish for those that needed help - food, medicine or Covid-19 testing. It was a nice gesture and I hope a lot of people in our community benefitted from this bag. I hope other communities and cities can provide a bag with helpful information and items to those that need it. We have to be humans helping each other, supporting each other, caring for each other.

That's great to hear, we all could do with some extending of kindness to each other and the prosocial activities you mention are exactly what we need more of.

About why people steal, the vectors are often intense poverty/need, lack of job skills/education, a paucity of work experience/training, a dearth of available jobs/resources, and limited access to the rungs of social mobility. In a former career path, I worked in an adjunct capacity (an alternative sentencing program aimed at reducing adolescent recidivism in NYC) to juvenile justice. I didn't run into many individuals in family court that stole things for shits and giggles. Kleptomania, if that is what you are alluding to, is a real thing, but relatively rare, at least it was in the populations I served.

But I'm not here to argue opinions nor was I opining as to the motivations of the thieves in question. I was simply referencing the difficulty of current conditions, compassion, and perspective on it all.