Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Our prisons are full of stupid folk - the clever crooks are in the City - though why we bang up twice as many as other European countries I'm not sure
Especially when only the very silly crooks get caught by the very few police.
There is also the very complicated relationship with declining religious belief: most faiths teach that we should be "good" ...... do as you would be done by is central.
Being "good" for the sake of an immortal soul is very much yesterday for many people. Death has been banished, people just pass. Seemingly, if one can get away with misdeeds, why not?
But then the old f@rts like me on the forum were taught to open doors for ladies [ladies? what are ladies, we cannot even define women?] , walk on the outside of the pavement, take hats off in church and fear the consequences of being naughty.
Just saying.