It isn't the fact that do-gooders do good, it is that many don't know where to stop - there has been a growing belief since the 60's that humankind is essentially good and allowing all individuals to grow unfettered by the rules and regulations of society will somehow produce a world full of happy, smiley, fulfilled and peaceloving people.
However, you don't need to go far off the beaten track to realise that civilisation is a thin veneer and that, left to our own devices, we rapidly degenerate into a Darwinian 'strongest survive' which doesn't encompass 'most intelligent, caring and compasionate survive'.
Education should help us rationalise our way out of the jungle but money and sex repeatedly blur our moral direction - look how many businessmen fight their way to the top, realise that money can't buy you happiness and then give it all away to charity to salve their conscience.
Like Ghengis, I am a student of martial arts and whilst it may not be everyones cup of tea, it does teach young people respect, both for themselves and for others. I am not proclaiming it as a solution to our yob problem but anything that helps must be a good thing.
There are many people doing excellent work to help the truly disadvantaged but so much of this effort is wasted on those who just can't be bothered to help themselves and see the State as an easy meal ticket.
As with all of life, there is no 'one size fits all' solution, especially since the problem was not caused by one event but has been growing steadily, fuelled by successive governments pandering to the 'quick fix' vote-winning headline answer rather than tackling the root of the problem (often the poor example set by the governments themselves).
Human rights are important but they need the wisdom of Solomon to be applied appropriately to prevent the opportunist taking advantage by hiding behind clumsy legislation. If only we had a Ministry for Common Sense we might have some chance of redressing the lunatic decisions handed out by courts who are too obsessed with the legal process to see the damage they do to society.