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You were not solely apposing Anti-Social behaviour, but All people to which your taxes go to 'help'
Your point was that if they do not accept responsibility then they will be punished. That they are not deserving of help because
they will not help themselves.
The fact that you couldn't follow my argument probably say's a lot about your own blinkered view.
Your point about anti-social behaviour being bad is accepted. Your point that all non-tax payers apart from the mentally ill and cripplingly addicted, need to help themselves overlooks a problem with social funding, education and standards of living that span generations.
I have said on previous threads that there are things that you can do in the community that can help to alleviate social behaviour
such as volunteering and Mentoring.
Contacting your local MP to suggest that problems with any social problem are escalating and that working in partnership with community charities and other NGO's can help to bring people together.
As I said, I have never experienced anything other than seeing them talking loudly on the benches, but others have other experiences.
Just saying that we are well rid is a problem in itself, and will ultimately create problems within the community, maybe not ours but somewhere else.
You seem to fall back on defensive pontificating rather than maybe attempting to look at the problem from the roots up.
I accept that suggesting you were a Tory was a low blow, as no one deserves to be tarnished as such, I retract that base insult.
I do hope you can forgive me.
The Bench(es) do represent a lot more than was first imagined...
I wonder what has happened to commissar17, it's much easier when there is a more obvious set of values to have a go at as one.
I miss him.
Anyway, I have work to do.
The world ain't gonna save itself.... Or something
Where the hell am I supposed to collect free money for skag now?
It's a diabolical liberty.
I'm sure the issue is more serious for others, especially with the bongo player and the nearby flats ( don't forget up to 1000 people live on SGR). I would have probably taken his bongos off him and sent him with his trust fund back to his rich parents.
(As a matter of basic courtesy, buskers should never use instruments whose sound carries too far. This is why the acoustic guitar remains the classic - shit as most of its exponents are, you're soon out of range. Although tying back to your mention of karma police, there was a chap in Cambridge who did very good Radiohead renditions on clarinet)