"Also, I don't think anybody was looting and causing criminal damage because life was unfair".

Well a number of contributors to 'the other' thread thought exactly that, Ian. That was the justiciation they put up to excuse the looters' and arsonists' behaviour.

OK, I'll withdraw my demands for those pieces of excrement to be birched if you and your mate Richard can guarantee that they will be locked up for a long time, because they deserve no less.

It's the failure of society to adequately punish evil-doers that's brought us to a pitch where criminal arseholes have no fear of the consequences of their actions.