Don't loot. Eat fruit!

I completely disagree with all the looting, which has been going on across England this month. Destroying our own communities is ridiculous. But I am not surprised.

It is quite conceivable that some of the uneducated, poor, jobless people involved in this could convince themselves that looting from a shop is reasonable given the circumstances. I am fortunate to be in none of these categories and I can almost convince myself it's ok to steal from a company (the fact that only the low down staff or the future consumers are affected stops me). If business’ can get away with stealing, taking advantage of people and not paying all of their taxes why should we respect them? Loads of our own politicians have stolen (remember the expenses scandal?) and they are already well off. I know that most of these looters won’t be thinking these thoughts but the ideology of taking what you can regardless of the consequences to other individuals is well ingrained in our culture and is nicely exemplified by the highest members of our society.

The rioters may not have a political agenda but that does not mean the riots aren’t a consequence of politics.

I believe the division between the classes is the main cause of this type and level of ‘criminality’ (I’m sick of hearing people saying that word). The fact that the class divide is widening does not look good for the future. I do not mean that all working class people will riot or even that all the rioters are working class. But having such a large number of people with the potential to be criminals is a direct consequence of our society. If you disagree with this then ask yourself ‘what else created them?’ Whatever your answer is they still did not create themselves. If your response would be similar to ‘OK then I accept that they didn’t create who they have become but they can still choose to change who they are’ then you are an idiot. Please think about how that doesn’t make any sense at all. It is flawed logic. If you still disagree then please follow my blog in the future as I try to explain myself and I will apologise to you for being a nasty twat.