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Originally Posted by Kevin2960
Exactly which is why I Still say Theft is Theft, letting it slide, glossing over it, dressing it up differently are the REASON our society is as it now is, And there may not be a way back to older values and better times!
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Plato apparently said "What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?". It still sounds very modern nearly 2500 years later!
I agree with Barnardo's as discussed in
this BBC article, that demonising children in particular - and nostalgia for bygone days when there was more moral fibre in general - can be a dangerous and a damaging thing.
Perhaps my idea of asking whether people crying "thief" would like to be called "child molesters" has more merit than I had imagined. By legislating against a younger generation perceived as having lower morals, the older generation in power does indeed harm their children.
My hope is that those who lack a nuanced view of the situation (i.e. those at both extremes) are in the minority, as this poll suggests (athough it's a small sample that doesn't represent the populace at large).