10-08-2011, 06:22 PM
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How bad is bad?
"Martin" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:10:44 +0100, Sacha wrote:
On 2011-08-10 10:46:44 +0100, Kay said:
On 09/08/2011 17:34, in article , "Sacha"
wrote:
The people in these riots and the man who attacked your
property aren't poor, they're not in real need of food or shelter which
IS poverty, they're just destructive or jealous or lazy or all those
things.
There is the concept of relative poverty - being unable to share in the
lifestyle that all around you take for granted, or seeing any means to
do
so.
Everyone knows someone with more or better than they've got. I don't
see that as an excuse. If people want more and better, find a legal
way of acquiring it. The people organising the looting in the riots,
or the riots themselves, have Blackberries, not tin cans on the end of
a string.
which were almost certainly stolen, not bought.
What on earth makes you say that? Surely that's pure speculation on your
part?
But there's no excuse for looting and violence.
Absolutely none. I can understand it better where there's real abject
poverty, allied with a repressive dictatorship. This was organised
crime for greed. A comparatively small number of feral humans have
destroyed homes, businesses, livelihoods and terrorised people on the
street or in their cars. That's a shame and disgrace upon all of us,
imo, because in one way or another, we've allowed things to reach a
pitch where it *can* happen. But we really are so far OT now that I
have to accept I'm never going to be World President and bow out
gracefully! ;-)
:-)
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Martin
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