used veggie oil is an expensive commodity

I'm so disappointed. They've started prosecuting people for stealing used grease. There goes our escape plan for when things get crazy and there's no gas to be bought anywhere. We were going to slip a little grease in our straight-vegetable-oil car if we had to so we could make it up to Virginia. Now we'll have to ride the rails instead... 

And yes, of course it's wrong to steal. But Jesus' disciples picked grain on the Sabbath. Yeah, I know; not quite the same thing. 

On a more serious note, it really is easy to start to reconsider situational ethics when you imagine yourself in a threatening situation. I wonder what we would do, honestly, if there was no water in Atlanta, or if food couldn't be transported into the city, or if people were rioting over gas prices. I'm pretty sure I would do whatever it took to get out of the city and take my family somewhere with plenty of water and agricultural land (which is why we're planning on moving to the Shenandoah Valley). At what point does your instinct for self-preservation override your sense of right and wrong?

I hate to imagine that those are realistic scenarios for the future. But I guess the world will end somehow, eventually. And our current lifestyle can't last forever. Only time will tell.