Have you ever seen what happens in a major disaster, or even a relatively minor one in some cases? Sometimes everything is okay, but sometimes it seems like people can't wait to act like monsters to one another. A blackout in the Northeastern U.S. 10 years ago- a minor disaster- led to some decent people taking it upon themselves to do the right thing: random people started directing traffic, restaurants handed out all their food before it went bad, etc. Others tried to scam everyone else. The pizza place near my parents' apartment in Manhattan went out of business shortly after the blackout because during the crisis, they started charging people $30 for a pie.