All people are equal, regardless of background or how much money you have in the bank. Social status is utter nonsense and I get pissed just from hearing the term "class society". Nobody is better than anyone else and I feel like smacking anyone who claims this.
People has to come before profit and material things. Don't cut back on geriatric care and education because there isn't enough funding and then go out and build a new town square for millions of dollars. No town square can be that important. How does one justify kids being thrust into huge classes miles and miles away from their home because their local school was shut down due to the lack of funding, while in the meantime gobs of money is poured into making a town square more esthetically pleasing?
Esthetics is important, but people are a little more important, am I right?
In this respect I suppose I am a liberal. However, when it comes to crime and punishment I suppose I fall more in the conservative fold...perish the thought.
Last night I walked home from my parents across the field that I always cross, along with my dog. The still autumn air was echoing of voices of inebriated kids having house parties here and there. One of my biggest pet peeves. As we approach our block, we pass one particular apartment where there is a party going on almost every weekend. Loud kids were littering the lawn outside, having bullshit conversations and making a racket. I think to myself "Poor neighbours!".Minutes later, just as we got home, a cop car comes charging along the same path that we just walked on. My mom could see it from her kitchen window. She called me to make sure Kelly and I got home safely. While I'm on the phone with her, kids come scurrying out of that apartment building like mice from a sinking ship. It must have been a drug bust or an alcohol bust or whatever. Most of those kids were probably underage.
All I could think was "Good! I hope the cops catch them!"
See, in this case I'm certainly not a bleeding heart liberal. I have zero tolerance in this area. I have a special dislike, a very strong dislike, for people who throw loud, drunken parties without any regard for their neighbours. It really sucks when the person living below you is making a racket and people are throwing glass bottles on the ground, or maybe even trying your front door handle to try and get into your apartment. That's never happened to me personally but know someone who would always have drunks stagger into her apartment to use to the bathroom whenever her neighbour had a party. Sure you should be able to have parties, but does it have to be at your neighbours' expense? I don't think it's okay to have loud music on at any time of the day. My neighbours wouldn't choose to listen to Elvis Presley belch out "That's Alright Mama", thus I either use headphones or I keep the volume on a level where the sound doesn't travel over to my neighbour's apartment. Why can't everybody use this simple logic? You can't live like you're the only person around for miles. If you want to live that way, move into some cottage in the middle of the forest.
I have no pity in my heart for kids who act like idiots. Sorry. Not if they take their problems out on other people. If they go around smashing the glass on bus shelters or doodling on public, or private, property, I have no patience with them. I especially have no sympathy for kids who kill other kids. Like the case of a group of Swedish teengage boys who kicked another teenager to death. Kicking another boy in the head until he dies in a joint group effort, now that's the kind of action that deserves no mercy as far as I'm concerned. By doing that, they forfeited their right to rehabilitation. If one has the capacity to do that, one is beyond rescue. Let's try to save those that want to be saved. Because there are those kids out there too. My sympathies lies with them. Those lost kids who lack someone to turn to for stability and parental guidance, and who are basically nice kids who may get drunk or do drugs but who don't take it out on the rest of the world. You see them sometimes, taking a late bus home, baggy pants, ratty appearance, leaning against the window. Looking sad rather than aggressive. Sad gets to me, aggressive doesn't.
As for people who take their misery out on everyone around them, sorry...out of sympathy. I think those boys who kicked another boy to death should have been tried as adults and been sentenced to some hard jail time, not been given 1 year in a rehabilitation clinic.
I go through hard times too, we all do, but not all of us deal with it by ruining the lives of others or destroying public property, thereby letting the tax payers foot the bill.
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