The End Of Society

[sunny-dave]

Several threads on here recently have made me despair at the "me first, me second, me third ... and everyone else can go hang" attitudes that seem to be being propounded by original posters and then gaining some considerable support from subsequent repliers.

I see people keeping money they find, running away from responsibility after deliberately damaging property, selling a house - with the cat included, scoffing in the face of legitimate 'benefit sanctions' ... and that's just today.

Surely we are better than that? Surely society cannot even survive if we all go down that route?

Or is it just that we who are signed up to the 'social contract', which keeps the country going, are mugs - with the asocial/antisocial sector laughing like drains at our stupidity in continuing to indulge their behaviour?

[Baldric]

Talbot and myself were dubbed Bill and Ben by another ABer a while back

[B00]

"relcalcitrant"

The what now?

please tell me that's a made up word or a typo, as I've no idea what it means!

[Psybbo]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/recalcitrant

[sunny-dave]

recalcitrant

"having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline"

Stroppy Gits :)

[B00]

Coooo, its a proper word!

Who'da thunk it!

*Boo's new word of the day*....well, couple of hours now.

[mrs.chappie]

I have a plasma screen but I've never smoked and I'm not on any benefits whatsoever.

I also treated my mum well when she was still with us, I help old ladies across the road and I'm kind to animals. Can I have a brownie point please? :o)

[sunny-dave]

I can see that going well in the staff meeting at UpNorth Co-op PLC ... :)

[sunny-dave]

Have a whole troop of Brownies and a Boy Scout's woggle too, Mrs C :)

[jno]

kids are fine, it's just the generation born under the malign Thatcher Star

- ducks -

[gness]

Do you know how fed up I am with being carted to the other side of the road whenever I stand still, MrsC?

[China Doll]

What's wrong with keeping money you've found then?

[Baldric]

"relcalcitrant" ain't a proper word!

[gness]

Don't duck, Jno...I'll stand with you on that one....x

[mrs.chappie]

Now listen Gness, you're crossing that road whether you like it or not! :o)

[mrs.chappie]

Dave. :o)

[Old_Geezer]

Folk don't sign up to any social contract. They just do what they do in the conditions they find themselves. Not like one has much real choice.

[gness]

We do have choice, OG....one of the benefits of living in this country....so far....x

[Old_Geezer]

Not really. The government still dictates what you can and can not do. Born into a society the most you can do is vote for a preferred elite, or protest in vain, or drop out and become a vagrant. Oh or move to a different society/country where you have the same lack of power over the imaginary contract.