MA, maybe you should have actually read my earlier posts. I made this distinction from one of my first posts in this thread...
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This is the crux of it. The riots are breaking out now because they have (what they perceive to be) an excuse. A couple of people are doing it, and now crowd mentality leads the idiots to follow them along. What kind of points are these people trying to prove when they loot and destroy the property of innocent bystanders?
I don't know. But I'll tell you what point they're proving to me. That they're the scum of today's society, and should be dealt with thusly.
And not sympathised with. Get it?
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Notice how I talk specifically about the rioters and the people acting inappropriately.
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so, by your reckoning, any jobless person that smokes and has tattoos will spend all their money on 'luxuries' and then proceed to complain about being skint.
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Look, I think this is the root of this, right here. I'm
not saying that every jobless person that spends money on smoking and tattoos will complain about being skint. I'm saying that
only the jobless people who spend money on smoking and tattoos and then complain (verbally and by action... such as rioting) about being skint are the ones who annoy the fuck out of me, and it tends to be those I see a lot of. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
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So everyone who partook in the riots is dishonest and a slacker? And you know this for certain?
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Well obviously they're dishonest, because I don't hear about many of them turning themselves in for taking part. As for the slacker thing, well, I had this worked out.
1) Sources people are posting show that the riots took place in areas of worst unemployment rates. No, I'm not saying that every unemployed person took part, and that there were no employed people taking part. The figures point to a hypothesis that at least
most of the people who
rioted, were unemployed.
2) No person with half a brain who seriously values future (or current, as the case may be) employment would ever get risk getting caught or spotted taking part in a riot, and getting a criminal record, unless perhaps they'd just be adding to one they already have.* People have already pointed out in this thread how much more difficult it is to get a job with a criminal record. People also weren't stealing necessities; I don't think an argument of 'people HAD to steal to stay alive' can fly here.
3) The conclusion to draw from point one and two is that either the guilty party were either far too swept up in the chance to get free stuff and cause some mayhem that they didn't consider future repercussions (aka, they're stupid and selfish), or that they were never interested in getting a job in the first place, so figured they had little to lose. Yes, there are probably other factors here, and I'd like to hear them, maybe it can restore my faith in people a little. But it seems to me that the most
likely people to take part in the riot are the slackers, via this logic.
*On a side note, I hate how this system works. It's extremely unfair for people who genuinely want to turn a new leaf, and practically
encourages repeat offenders by giving them no better option. This is probably one of the other big problems in the UK, I think.