Week 6: Reading Response 2

During this whole dispute most of the issues in the emails and blogs were about the wording of the captions. While there were some emails and blogs that had other concerns most were either confused or just plain angry with the wording, making this a "definitional argument." The relevant terms a "finding" and "looting." Some people describe finding as something not in a place to be bought and isn't already owned by someone else. Now the term "looting" has several meanings in different situations. Lets say there is a riot, then the term "looting" means going into a store of any kind and coming out with any type of item that the person did not pay for. Now on the flip side lets say there is a natural disaster and everything is destroyed but grocery stores. "Looting" is now defined as going into a store and coming out with items that are not of survival items and have not been paid for.The world just doesn't see eye to eye on these types of situations. People define those two term differently every time,some go by the basic definition of them and others define them according to other peoples nationality.
Some say that "finding" is walking or driving somewhere and there is some kind of item that catches your interest, and it's not already owned by someone else. Now that's hard because how often do you find something that hasn't already been previously owned by someone else, chances are slim to none of that ever happening. Others say "finding" is when you see something of interest and is not right then and there owned then it's the finders, this is a much easier definition. "Looting" is more difficult, some define "looting" according to the situation, and some say that if your a certain race it's either "finding" or "looting."
I too have different definitions for both of the terms. I prefer the term "finding." In both photographs they are finding, it's just that the one on the left just so happens to find a grocery store with a larger amount of items, and the one on the right didn't.