highlandsflyer":xxbdba09 said:
Regardless of my feelings about how hard they should be coming down on these louts, I am one hundred percent convinced this is the natural outcome of Capitalism being the dominant influence on society, rather than the state itself.
Bollocks!
It is the natural result of people being led to expect something for nothing, that the state will provide, and if they want a little more, then they can just tak,e it with impunity. They have their rights, and they know them . No-one, not teachers, not the police, nor anyone else , is allowed to tell them right from wrong, and their parents, if present, do not know, or do not care about, it themselves.
Everyone knows their rights, the rights the state has given them, but no-one has any responsibilities; the state has removed them.
In every area of life, the nanny state has taken away the need for personal responsibility, and once again it's the hard working (capitalist?) majority who suffer.