Has the world became less nice and ethical?
Watch this postFor real, am I just getting old or has the world become unkind. Is it my view only. Do more people just seem out for themselves or am I just noticing it.
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I guess a lot of the litter problems are due to the very many 'fast-food' outlets that now blight our towns ( I wouldn't eat their food, even if it was free!). Have you seen town centres at 6am on a Sunday morning?
Yes, I think the world is becoming less nice, certainly life is now very much more brutish, and now even people in wheel chairs, the blind, disabled and women with babies in prams are seen as legitimate targets for muggers, thieves and attackers.
And, you would need to be very brave or extremely foolish to walk into some areas alone at night, although the government will tell us that there are 'absolutely NO no-go areas in the UK, the truth is rather different. But, but, politicians don't tell lies, do they?
And ethical considerations are often in conflict with the law; some things can be perfectly 'legal' yet ethically, and morally wrong, abortion, for instance, or the imposition of the 'bedroom tax' on people who already have nothing!
The can do it because they have decided that they have the right to do so, but they have brushed aside the morality of doing so as though they were swatting a troublesome fly.
We get the kind of government we voted for, we then have to live with their decisions, no matter how ethically unsound they are.