@Finn dAbuzz,
Quote:, but their mother instilled real values in them. None of them ever looted stores and burned buildings...
But if the value was fear of the law you haven't said much. It was the absence of fear of the law that brought out such numbers to steal and wreck. And Media was showing unpoliced streets and commenting "there are no police here".
We have, in recent years, had two cash machines that started dispensing money at a few notes at a time. Large queues formed when more noticed and to prevent fighting and rioting it was agreed to take turns. They were obviously people with bank accounts who had temporarily ceased to fear the law.
Large numbers of our MPs were caught with their hands in the till when it transpired that their expenses claims could be "padded out" without fear of the law. Large numbers of journalists have been tapping phones because they had no fear they would be caught. Policemen have been taking bribes assuming they had nothing to fear. The Commissioner of the Met. had to resign over a £20, 000 gift. And what can one say about bankers that has not already been said? Expenses claim forms are probably the single largest type of theft in existence. Middle class looting one might call it. Getting caught is almost impossible because those who sign the claims off are fiddling their own expenses.
All of those people, and many more like them, would all make the sort of claim you make about having had moral values instilled in them by a superior upbringing. (my fat arse). It saves them admitting that they fear the law which is considered a bit wimpy. And they are all out now with the infamous reverse invidious comparison as soon as the perfect scapegoat appears on the scene with whom they are free to compare themselves favourably to.
Have you ever seen a programme explaining some simple scientific principle or other in which the presenter is shown visiting 20 different locations around the globe complete with production crew and back-up and the only people the principle is explained to are the ones who already understood it?
Media is THE PROBLEM. "Hello Mum" shite. If sadism is the projection of the ego onto the surroundings then Media is sadistic. Even the TV companies' van drivers strut.
"The medium is the message".
Moral values are rarely instiilled in the absence of fear of punishment.
