Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cllr Govindia wants to evict rioters | |
Posted by: | R Lucas | |
Date/Time: | 17/08/11 15:40:00 |
I do not take offence at you having a different view to my own (albeit confess that your `narrow-minded' comment borders on it and comes across as inappropriately arrogant. It also somewhat implies a (IMHO) misplaced `sympathy` with the looting fraternity's make-up. However, I guess I do need to reply... I think it is wrong to divert attention away from these diliberate destructors of neighbourhoods/livlihoods to a category (bankers) that have already been widely and rightly condemned (NOT `excused'!). In this regard it is a little desperate to try and score a non-existent point by referring to my choosing the past tense when referring to reported events & imply this somehow denotes `forgiveness` etc. One does not have to be very news savvy to know that this is still a hot topic but at least the vast majority of people in the finance industry do work for a living and don't deliberately choose to smash windows, rob and kill people )OR the equivalent thereof! If a narrow-minded' approach helps provide a focus rather than such continual excuses that support our `blame culture' (as one looter or, wait, was she a model, a lawyer, a para or god forbid, a banker said, `it's the Government's fault' as she made off with her new free wardrobe...& no doubt also helped raise the jobless figure in the meantime.....) then, reluctantly, I am all for it. I strongly disagree that `taking responsibility' is ` a miniscule part of makes up a society (sic)'. I think this sad attitude is a fundamental root of our problems - change starts with the individual - and to ignore that simple truth would seem to put one in the `hug a hoodie' category which sounds very Christian (all for that :)) but seems to solve little. |