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Originally Posted by derekgas
No respect, no discipline, no authority, no fear. I still say parents are to blame ultimately, but agree with bb that parents have become more tolerant along the generations. It sounds harsh, but here is my recipe for the making of better people. The parents have no fear of thier children being taken away from them, thus they have no reason to sort them out unless the damage is to thier own property etc. Hanging, flogging, the stocks, national service, boot camp, borstal, boarding schools, hard time prison, give the police the control of the streets back and bin all the paperwork and red tape, give the teachers thier control back, including the cane, the slipper and the dunces cap, it would take 20 years to make a complete difference, but I am sure that if all the above were returned over time, improvements would be startling initially and steadily things would improve, abolish the compensation nation attitude and the human rights stupidity too. And before the do gooders start shouting about this being barbaric, I find all the murders, rapings, child molestation etc barbaric, and before they get on the human rights pedestal, what about our rights to walk the streets safe, and able to leave belongings in your car or garden without fear of theft, and to allow my kids to the park alone without fear of violence or idiotic drivers? Excellent thread panther!
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...and survivors will be shot again
Seriously, get a grip on reality, the problems are with the minority, why destroy the lives of millions ?
The problem is mainly with the perception of "youths".
You see a group of teenagers in full black tracksuits and you assume that they are drunk off cheap cider, out until 3AM every night swearing and vandalising before going home to neglectful parents on benefits and truanting off the next day of school. The case 9 times out of 10 is that its a few teenage lads off for a kickabout.
I laugh at the fact that when I do out out playing football, people cross the street to avoid me, walking in not the best of areas and standing6ft tall wearing tracksuit bottoms (I'll be buggered if I'm wearing shorts in winter) and an athletic shirt I am the typical "youth" up to no good. Terrifying I know.
Now look at it from a different angle, I am a straight A student, had the chance of a place at Oxford or Cambridge but chose against it, now earned a conditional offer from the most popular and one of the most competitive universities in the country- The University of Manchester, I am simply going to have a kick around with my friends, who I've known since primary school, spending a bit of time with them before we all move away. Still scared ?