But again, when you have people living on benefits and no help to get them out of that cycle then they don't own anything and nothing's theirs so they don't regard anything around them as precious.

Why shouldn't you thrwo trash out of your window if it's not your garden it's being thrown into and the council come to clean it?

And no one seems to be responsible for their actions anymore because some PC human rights person will find some mitigating circumstance that illustrates how the person has had a hard life, or whatever.

We do need to start being a bit tougher on people...

I think...now that's only my opinion...nothing to start a war over...

I also think that part of the problem is that no one knows anyone anymore. When I was growing up if I'd been seen littering or doing anything bad by anyone my mum knew, they'd have told her, so I was too scared to do anything bad!

But we're not allowed to make children afraid in any way anymore. Like, you're not allowed to tell them about the bogey man or anything, so we have a generation growing up who think there's very little to fear. Obviously (cos I realise now that I have to state the obvious here) that doesn't apply to everyone, but i think it does to quite a lot of kids/teenagers nowadays, some members of my own family included....take drugs for example...won't happen to me will it?