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[jumpinggene]

On Wednesday I cycled in to work as usual. At one junction, while most of the cyclists piled up at the red light, one woman rolled on through. This *really* annoys me. It states that "I'm above the law" and "the rules don't apply to me". The thought that crossed my mind was to yell at the woman: "the light is red! the rules apply to you too! You're

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[king_josie]

You make some very good points.

I am a bit miffed that there's such an "us and them" thing going on concerning the rioters. They're not all animals, capable of things we couldn't or wouldn't do. As you've pointed out - we all do 'bad' things, especially when we think we can get away with it.

I would write something more insightful but i am tired. may come back to this...

[jumpinggene]

I think about this all the time. When I'm tired it tends to boil down to "life is unfair". And yes, yes it is. None of us worked hard to achieve that which was given to us by being born to a certain family. Birth is this gigantic lottery and it's (indeed) unfair for those who got a better lot BY LUCK to pick on those who got stuck with the dregs of life.

As I dropped my extremely expensive visa application off in Woolwich today, I wondered if my £££ couldn't be better (and more satisfyingly) spent INSIDE London. I feel a bit guilty about being able to have the luxury to "just pop over to France for the weekend". The fact that things are becoming easier and cheaper makes people appreciate them less.

/sermon

All this talking won't ever solve anything. But it's nice to know that A - someone's listening and B - some people even agree with me :)

[king_josie]

One thing on this subject that really annoys me is peoples attitudes concerning immigrants. Saying that Brits deserve the healthcare and jobs and homes and stuff over immigrants as though British-born people are somehow greater than the rest of the world. Especially concerning asylum seekers, it just seems absurd to try deny people the right to safety on the basis that maybe Brits will be a little less worse off than our current state of enormous privelege. It's simply luck where we were born, and i scored so very VERY lucky, and you a bit less so.