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These loathsome people have no respect for Britain's glorious history or traditions. Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.
Well, they are supposed to be immigrants or descendants of 1st generation immigrants so your comment may not apply.
These loathsome people have no respect for Britain's glorious history or traditions. Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.
I admit I laughed, but this comment belongs more on reddit than here.
These loathsome people have no respect for Britain's glorious history or traditions. Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.
As for myself I have a rather nasty looking ice-axe somewhere...
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I find your comment quite disturbing. I can get behind leaving a looter (slightly) bloody and bruised, I suppose, but the nonchalance with which you proclaim these other humans "deserve to die", and state that it's "only fair" is ... well, disturbing. That's the best word. It's disturbing. The whole damned thing is disturbing.
I agree. Way too many people are calling for the deaths of these looters. If that's society's answer to these events than I find myself forced to defend them.
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Hmm, no offense but that looks a bit staged (or perhaps its just near the end of the cleanup) a few people sweeping with brooms, most people milling about and watching them. A sad thing for me is when I start to tell a young person about a riot that I experienced and they think its 'cool.' There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, 'cool' about a riot. You can read about mob dynamics, you can imagine heroic act…
> rule of law loses its grip for a moment. Really? You're a non-violent, non-rioting good person because of the law? I think you meant "civility loses its grip for a moment."
I'm not a non-violent non-rioting good person because of the law, and I'm prepared to give the grandparent the benefit of the doubt and assume that doesn't apply to him either. However...
Most people, I think, are fairly good, and are restrained from rioting and looting by their own consciences. But some people are just arseholes, and are only restrained from crime by the thought of punishment.
Civility doesn't have a "grip". Either you've got it in you or you haven't.
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As a recent Reddit convert who would like to follow the rules, why?
Because it is easier to create slapstick than meaning. Humor may be a part of life and discourse, but in certain cases, and especially on the internet, it distracts from the real issue at hand, as most slapstick fails to convey meaning. If you can make me laugh and then think, then more power and karma to you, but most of us are unable to produce such witty insight on the fly all the time. We try. We fail, and we spa…
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I find your comment quite disturbing. I can get behind leaving a looter (slightly) bloody and bruised, I suppose, but the nonchalance with which you proclaim these other humans "deserve to die", and state that it's "only fair" is ... well, disturbing. That's the best word. It's disturbing. The whole damned thing is disturbing.
If a looter sees that someone has a metal baseball bat and doesn't decided to walk away, then they are responsible for what happens to themselves. Anyone with two braincells to rub together knows that if you go up against somebody with a giant metal club, you might die. Let's be honest here, these are not sniper rifles, in order for someone to be killed by someone wielding a bat defensively they have to opt-in. What…
Apparently CNN has picked up on this and has a story pointing this out as well: http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/09/technology/amazon_riot/