Things you dislike about your country.

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You approve of armed robbery? Shame on you. Will you be silent if you are robbed? I would bet you would weep and complain.

ruveyn

i do not really have many gripes about australia, but a few things are not quite satisfactory i guess.

i do not like the fact that sport is so revered, and i do not like that the fact that if i am not interested in sports, then that fact results many times in a frosty social experience.

i could not care less who is playing where or when.

the average australian (in my opinion) seems to be more accepting of mediocrity and less so of exception.

there is a "tall poppy" syndrome where average people look suspiciously at people who are in commanding positions. anyone who rises above the average is fair game for the admonition of people who are living a tough life.

many TV ads these days are filled with "assurances from satisfied customers", and they pick the most broadly average people to play the roles of "satisfied customers". people who sound not that smart at all.

it is a ploy to lure more average "gidday mate" australians to part with their cash.

i was bewildered that rudd won the election in 2007.
i disliked him profusely, and i felt that i was aware clearly of his artificiality, and i thought there was no way he could win. but he did, and at that time, i suffered a decline in my admiration of australians because i could not believe they could be romanced by his grimmacing face sprouting words that had no basis.

then gillard (the worm) ate her way in to the core of the misplaced apple (our government who lost direction under rudd) and then there was the celebrations that a woman was finally prime minister.

my eyebrows were not symmetrical for quite a large portion of my observation of the parliament,
they still are not.

i like everything else about living in australia though.

My neighbors? I would be robbing the people screwing things up....anyways sin is all a matter of perspective. Survival would overrule 'is this a sin or not?' Society is probably already screwed anyways, but there are a number of thing's I'd do before resorting to stealing...I'd probably raid all the abandoned stores I can find for supplies first.

If sh*t does indeed hit the fan, begging, blubbering and whining probably wouldn't help anything.

I'm sure ruveyn would resort to stealing if he had absolutely nothing and would otherwise starve to death. All humans would. Especially if they didn't have an easy means to kill themselves more quickly than dying of starvation.

In short, your needs make you an enemy of your neighbors. Nothing justifies theft. It is a sin, and if carried out in a general way it would lead to the destruction of society. Just on Kantian grounds, theft should be rejected. If your need is so great, then beg, blubber and whine. Someone might help you.

ruveyn

Kant was a douchebag and selfishness and hoarding lead to the destruction of society as those without the means to survive begin to see those holding on to more than enough as their enemy.

:arrow: our lack of universal health care
the generally insufferable snobbishness/self-righteousness of the american middle class
our disgustingly base politics
our base popular culture
our rampant individualism
our atavistic tendency to blame everything on the ones at the bottom of the totem pole
our unseemly worship of the wealthy and of money, power, and fame
our wastefulness, as a culture, as a nation

there are many more things but a lack of space and time to describe them here. gawd, i wish canada [or australia/NZ] weren't so picky about who they admit to live in their fine nation[s].

Way to assume all those who make low wages only have the skill level to flip burgers. Sorry but I feel like construction/painting work like my dad does takes more physical effort than being some rich CEO. There is no reason one person should have more than enough money for 100 people to live on while there are people in poverty. People need to have the means to survive, as simple as that...if the government wont adress the problem and provide help as I said before the citizens have no obligation to support the government...and if anything an obligation to try and overthrow it.

Amen, brother blabby.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

What ever happened to the american dream? I doubt youve heard of that concept but ill explain it. See there was this idea back in the times of cavemen that people would go out and do the best they could and work their way from rags to riches. Now what we do is condemn those in riches until they give you what you feel you deserve. If you were a guy saying you deserve a hot model youd be laughed out of wp and most places irl. And its the EXACT same concept. You have to work for those things. Some people are luckier than others and achieve things more easily. But bitching about it and protesting is not going to fix anything.

Need justifies theft? No matter how rich the rich man is, if he has come by his riches honestly they are his whether he could "afford" to give up some of them or not.

Rob from the rich, give to the poor?

Robbing Hood, Robbing Hood
With his thieving men,
Robbing Hood, Robbing Hood
looting o'er the glen
Feared by the bad, loathed by the good,
Robbing Hood .... Robbing Hood.

ruveyn

What ever happened to the american dream? I doubt youve heard of that concept but ill explain it. See there was this idea back in the times of cavemen that people would go out and do the best they could and work their way from rags to riches. Now what we do is condemn those in riches until they give you what you feel you deserve. If you were a guy saying you deserve a hot model youd be laughed out of wp and most places irl. And its the EXACT same concept. You have to work for those things. Some people are luckier than others and achieve things more easily. But bitching about it and protesting is not going to fix anything.