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Quote: Originally posted by Sleeper17 on 08/8/2017
After all lets say some family dont realise how loud they are when on site, do you have a quiet word with them, or not? Maybe they are new to camping, or have some slight hereditary hearing problem.
Maybe they are. Or maybe they just don't give a toss, and instead of puzzlement followed by acceptance and possibly even contrition, you get antagonism and a stream of profanity. Then, given that you're on the next pitch, your holiday gets pretty awkward.
We live in a world where the unwritten social rules, the glue that once provided the framework to hold together society, have largely disappeared.
These days the only rule that matters is that you must never, ever criticise another person, particularly if that person appears to be poor, poorly educated, or poorly socialised (unless they are well off, in which case you can call them what you like, because there is a strong tendency in British society to presume that if somebody has money they don't deserve it and probably did something unethical to get it). Whatever that behavior is that you think is unacceptable, is acceptable. And the corollary of that is that if somebody criticises you, however gently, you have a right to verbally smack them in the face.
There is always an excuse. There is always special pleading. There is always somebody ready to defend behavior that is not only unproductive but that creates friction with others. What there never seems to be is an acceptance of personal responsibility.
Unruly children? None of your business!
Sweary adults? Who are you to police their language!
Criminal behavior? Walk a mile in their shoes before you judge!
Of course, there will always be a few people in society who will try and take advantage of the remaining 95%. That has been a constant throughout history. What seems to me to be new is the idea that the behavior people who behave in ways that, over time, damage the fabric civic society should be excused.
I understand why. I understand that people wanted to throw off the restrictive mores of the 1950s and 1960s, and some of those customs were indeed undesirable and unreasonable. Women not being allowed to take out mortgages in their own name, for example. We have a freer society as a result.
But there are no free lunches. What this has also gradually led to is a refusal by influential portions of society to accept any criticism of the behavior of any social subgroup that does not actively break a law - and even then not always. (Knife crime in London is a good example: it is overwhelmingly perpetrated by a certain ethnic minority, yet some sections of the media make excuses for the perpetrators.)
Basically we've opened a Pandora's box and the long-term effects on our society are difficult to predict.
Back in the here and now this brings us back to the problems raised in the original post about children running riot. It's not just your imagination. Parents do increasingly believe that their own children are beyond criticism and that others must put up with their behavior. Can I prove it? No. Doesn't mean it's not happening.
Post last edited on 27/08/2017 09:46:15
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