If you are excluded from school, you are enticed back with incentives like scuba diving lessons and other attractive and exciting things. Yet kids who work hard and behave get nothing. The same with help and assistance, if you are an ex-offender, drug addict or other anti-social person, you can get assistance and financial support to get qualifiactions or start a business, but someone who has 'conformed' to social standards gets nothing and has to struggle on their own. where is the incentive to be an honest, hard working model of society? It seems to me that in this country you get on in life if you don't behave and conform to social norms? You may be forgiven for thinking that I have had this happen to me, but I haven't. I have however, worked in the arenas of economic development and urban regeneration.
2006-09-20 00:42:45 · 8 answers · asked by the baroness 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes. People say the middle classes have failed the underclass by not allowing them the same chances..."they just haven't had the same oportunities, blah blah". But surely society is failing the good hard working working man by allowing the criminal classes to get away with all they do.
Who feels sorry for the working man when he's had no sleep? Or finds his car broken into, again. Or is chatised on the street?Do you know the police wont come out if your neighbours play house music all night, and you and your kids cant sleep?
If you go out in to Manchester from my house any night, after say 8, there are literally hundreds of teenagers, young teens, drunk, swearing, smashing stuff up, banging the bus etc. It's really quite scary! But nothing is done. They can rule the street and the little old lady next door is too scared to go out for a pint of milk.....
2006-09-20 00:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by hadjama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we have become just that. This seems to be a common occurence when dealing with societal problems. When we work to correct a wrong or to remedy past injustices, we over extend ourselves and go to far in the opposite direction. We need to restore balance. (The ole pendulum swing). and yes, i agree, it has definitely gotten out of hand. A good example would be welfare benefits for single mothers. The original idea was to compensate for deadbeat dads, and an argument could be made that society benefits from it. However, the current state of affairs is that the role of the father has been replaced by a surrogate( the state) . Decent men rightfully claim that the end result is that they are easily excluded and kicked out in the street
2006-09-20 07:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by lefty 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Liberalism is a mental disorder.
It's why we allow 20 million illegal aliens to come over our borders, sponge off the American tax payers, tell hard working LEGAL Americans that school programs are too full for their kids but illegals are welcome, refuse to speak the truth for fear of hurting someone's feelings, let kids think that 2 + 2 = 5 so as not to hurt their self esteem, and then wonder why our education system is among the worst in the world.
I could go on, but you get the picture, unless you're a twisted liberal.
There is an old saying: if you're young and not liberal, you have no heart. If you're older and still liberal, you have no brains.
2006-09-20 07:52:58 · answer #3 · answered by L96vette 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like my husband often says, you have to be a low life to get on in this world and you get better though of for it too, the world has gone nuts, the incentives they are giving out to ex offenders and kids who are expelled just aren't working, if they were then why are the prisons full and all the asbos been given out, something needs to be done and not through gift aid blackmail either.
2006-09-20 07:47:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is as such, all over! .......... I'm living in Athens-Greece and this is the "rational" behaviour of our Country leaders! This is an Antisocial behaviour, which rewards the
"criminals" and penalizes the "workers"! They oblige working people to pay taxes and give(offer) these taxes to lazy ones or non working ones!
There is a technique to break up the system : working hard +being able to break laws
properly!
Ciao....John-John.
2006-09-20 08:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by John-John 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think so. It is a case of stick and carrot measures. Punishment is not appropriate for every situation. You need to give people a reason why they should reform. If you just keep punishing them, they will end up hating society and it will push them further off the rails. It all has to be done in context of course.
2006-09-20 07:46:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, sadly if you are a brainless, antisocial halfwit wearing a back to front baseball cap and smoking a cigarette, youll be given enough money to do whatever you want..without having to work. If you are intelligent and work hard, youll get a kick in the teeth from UK authorities
2006-09-20 08:32:17 · answer #7 · answered by hello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
true..
2006-09-20 07:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋