Lying is OK in a variety of different situations.

What if the person stealing TP is going to sell it at inflated prices?

What questions can help foster understanding and solutions? Which questions are focused on determining only the “worthy” and “unworthy” activity? How long will we put up with these distractions?

Instead they scavenge for things they need to survive — but never loot.

Personally, I think it should be this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211139325

(or replace them with the owner) once things return to normal.

what do you mean by steal?

There's legal (and justifiable) "stealing" via say a progressive tax system. We take more from certain groups because they have more. Again, completely morally and ethically justifiable, but depending on one's definition, it is stealing.

There's illegal (but justifiable) stealing when needed for extreme situations.

There's illegal (and not justifiable) stealing when there is no extreme situation.

Lying is way too varied to sum up so simply.

So yes, stealing food in a hurricane, justifiable...stealing DVDs at any time, probably not. But as someone else pointed out, depends on your definition of stealing.

Is that a lie? I suspect Mueller has seen tons of that.

As for stealing, I wouldn't call it that when people are starving. Somehow I doubt the situation with Hurricane Florence got to that point after just a few days.... Not like Puerto Rico where people were literally drinking out of ditches.