Kasz216 on 12 August 2011
| HappySqurriel said: The welfare state is a system designed with good intentions that has a lot of unintended consequences that do more harm than the the good that is provided by the system ... With that said, I don't believe the riots in London have anything to do with the welfare state or the poor in general. Much like the Vancouver riots, the riots that are associated with every G20 meeting, and the growing wave of criminal/violent flash mobs in the United States, you have a generation who was raised with an unprecedented focus on self-esteem and have massive entitlement issues; and have no empathy for those who worked hard to build anything for themselves. |
Yep. Ironically I think it's a negative side effect of the "everyone's special" culture.
