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hyperlexian wrote:
i don't understand that at all. i am not programmed that way.
I don't know what Edmonton is like but here, taking on people can be quite dangerous sometimes, depending on the area and the situation. Perhaps you don't have so much of a scum element in Canada?
26 Jan 2012, 4:19 pm
Tequila wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
i don't understand that at all. i am not programmed that way.
I don't know what Edmonton is like but here, taking on people can be quite dangerous sometimes, depending on the area and the situation. Perhaps you don't have so much of a scum element in Canada?
i stopped a man who was assaulting another man, most probably trying to kill him. among other situations. i live in the murder capital of Canada. my need to do what i think is right overrides fear.
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26 Jan 2012, 4:28 pm
hyperlexian wrote:
Tequila wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
i don't understand that at all. i am not programmed that way.
I don't know what Edmonton is like but here, taking on people can be quite dangerous sometimes, depending on the area and the situation. Perhaps you don't have so much of a scum element in Canada?
i stopped a man who was assaulting another man, most probably trying to kill him. among other situations. i live in the murder capital of Canada. my need to do what i think is right overrides fear.
I think that there is a strong culture of fear in this country. Also a sense of impotence. People have heard media stories of interventions gone wrong, where people have been stabbed or assaulted for trying to stop violence. While crime might not necessarily be rising, the fear of crime certainly is. People do tend to ignore potentially dangerous situations, Tequila is by far the norm in his attitude to this.
I'm not saying it's right at all, and it's one of the things I find hard about this country. Maybe it's also a loss of a sense of community, people are very much primarily concerned with the nuclear family, and protecting their own. And the rise in knife crime in certain areas of the country, and gang related crime.
Fear, suspicion, crossing the other side of the road, pretending not to notice, impotence, are all quite common here now. It's sad.
26 Jan 2012, 4:31 pm
Henbane wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
Tequila wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
i don't understand that at all. i am not programmed that way.
I don't know what Edmonton is like but here, taking on people can be quite dangerous sometimes, depending on the area and the situation. Perhaps you don't have so much of a scum element in Canada?
i stopped a man who was assaulting another man, most probably trying to kill him. among other situations. i live in the murder capital of Canada. my need to do what i think is right overrides fear.
I think that there is a strong culture of fear in this country. Also a sense of impotence. People have heard media stories of interventions gone wrong, where people have been stabbed or assaulted for trying to stop violence. While crime might not necessarily be rising, the fear of crime certainly is. People do tend to ignore potentially dangerous situations, Tequila is by far the norm in his attitude to this.
I'm not saying it's right at all, and it's one of the things I find hard about this country. Maybe it's also a loss of a sense of community, people are very much primarily concerned with the nuclear family, and protecting their own. And the rise in knife crime in certain areas of the country, and gang related crime.
Fear, suspicion, crossing the other side of the road, pretending not to notice, impotence, are all quite common here now. It's sad.
The problem is that it's self-reinforcing as well. Law and order has broken down and, if a person does try to intervene to stop something happening, people often won't join in to lend support and to bring a peaceful end to hostilities. And the problem is that, because there is such a fear, thugs can get away with a lot more - not helped by an appallingly lenient law and order culture here that treats victims as criminals.
26 Jan 2012, 4:38 pm
I don't think I have any stalkers. 
Though I might be a bit flattered if I did.
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