diablo: good point and i understand your side of t.
eagl: no offence taken.
petty criminal? sure thing. i smoke a bit of weed, thus helping the dealers to get rich. i drive 45mph in a 40mph zone. when the bank screws up and credits me by mistake i will hopefully withdraw the money before they can corect it. when i need a song i'll readily go ahead and burn a copy from a mate rather than buy it from a shop. when a group of local lads that i know ask me to go and buy them some beer from the offlicence because they are only 17 years old i may just help them out if i know them and i have time.
petty thief? no sir.
the problems with the UK? come on now, lets be honest, the problems are not caused by anything other than todays lifestyles.
big cities. big business. big money. big people. small minds
all of the above lead to a society that cares for nothing but its own agenda.
in a small village, a thief is quickly branded and outcast in the same way it would have happened 400 years ago. possibly without having an arm chopped off these days but still the same social methods.
far from being selfish, my line here is that ive called his bluff, ive stopped the robbery, and ive given the perp a chance to change without paying the full price. shelfish maybe to the next person that gets robbed. over generous to the perp for sure.
'somebody elses problem'
while seemingly true in this case, i would beg to deny that being my motives. ive already said i would do everything in my imediate power to warn my community.
if this was about a murder, a rape, child molesting....i would be right out the door with the mind to head right down the police station and let them know. a crackhead trying to scam a few bucks? no. (again, please disasociate these thoughts from RPMS situation. i'm certainly not saying he did anything other than a smart, brave and community spirited thing. all credit where it is due. he is a better man than me for the effort he has put in for his local area, and nothing i say is an attempt to take that away.)
i live in a village on the outskirts of the suburban sprawl of London. walking home from town takes 30 mins and 90% is right down a straight main road. i regularly walk home from my girlfriends house at 4am and never take anything valuable because history has taught me that i will most likely be mugged on the way. ive been mugged at knife point and walked away with no mind to call the police. they will never respond in time to catch the guys red handed, and they will never care enough to follow the leads up and hunt them down. even if they somehow do catch the two salamanders that mugged me, two more are waiting round the corner to snatch the available 'turf' for thier 'work'. with the first two muggers in action, the second two do not commit crimes in that area because they will get beaten down like a male lion trying to take over the pride. this is human nature. If i take the dominat males off the circuit, i only open the gap for the weaker criminals to start working that spot.
It is a never ending cycle and unfortunately the rate at which people are being locked up is far slower than the rate at which criminals are born into the world.
stop the murderer and you have done a semi justice to the murdered, and maybe stopped future murders.
stop a petty criminal that will only open the door for the hierachy to move up a level is hardly worth the 2 hours you will spend trying to get the police to give a watermelon and more than likely to earn you an enemy that has nothing to lose and finds the idea of revenge quite enjoyable.
if they were going to lock them away and throw away the key, maybe its worth it, but they wont. the perps will be out on bail the same day and commiting crimes within a few hours of release. no different an outcome to just telling them to **** off. if they are going to change as a human being it wont come from being locked up. possibly the generous kindness i may display in letting them run off with thier tail between thier legs will be more likely to change them than calling 'the pigs' on them.
in my opinion, the governments and people in control are the biggest criminals on the planet. the claim to be capable of running the lives of millions of lifeforms for the 'better of all'.
bullchit.
they do thier 'job' to earn money for themselves. if they were desperate, straving, drug crazed and freezing to death they would rapidly become criminals to survive.
putting one crack head behind bars is not going to change the sick and twisted way humanity has been run for 4000 years.
i fully understand your points, and i think most people in Cambridge are over paid upper class tosspots who wouldnt touch a criminal for fear of being infected with a common man's stench.
the true English community enjoys a good tar and feather just the same as any folk.
I dont like the first world, i dont like the way humans have evolved, i dont like humanity, i dont like the governments, i dont like england or america equally, i dont like wars, i dont like most people and most of all i dont like raw tomatoes, they make me sick.
