Comments on: Coffee Crimes & Castle Walls

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:08:51 +0000

Our society has succumbed to the necessary defense mechanisms of protecting our property because of the rise of the degenerates. As a society, we have not done a good enough job instilling good moral and ethical behavior in our younger generations and we are paying the price. Society as a whole lacks the true concept of sharing, trust, and honesty and that starts at a very young age.

Families have long been under pressure and half disintegrate into split families with the children paying the majority of the price. Without proper teaching and learning, the children will develop into a group of people who know no limits in their lives. Like you say, they have had no supervision and when confronted with rules and regulations later in life, they mean nothing to them.

Teaching our young ones is imperative for removing the concepts of some of our castle walls in our future. Without trying to change the landscape at the heart of an issue, we are only fixing symptoms while leaving the sickness unchallenged.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:02:57 +0000

I agree, we can never remove the concept of castle walls from our lives, but we can choose to minimize their effects and reach into our lives. Trust and honesty are hard to find in our society and our walls are a necessary defense we have built in place for personal protection. We are easily hurt and rejected at times when we allow our walls to be overcome. I believe we can move forward as you say, being less self absorbed about our own world and focus more on what’s going on around us and within our own families.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:24:41 +0000

Building walls, that will never be done away with, individualy or as a group. But the more people try to change that concept, I believe the world will be a better place to live. I know I could do a better job of knocking down some walls of my own. That means more trust in the world and stop looking for any undesireable traits in others, but accept them as they are. Build true friendships, get involved with voting for the best leaders available for our country. Bottom line, I think we should stop being so self absorbed with ourself and our belongings and our feelings.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:20:25 +0000

I believe that a lot of the reason for building walls today, is that we live in a society where there are so many people that don’t have good morals or respect for the other persons property.

A good example of that is, people that are addicted to drugs that will beg, borrow or steal anything that they can get their hands on to sell for another fix. They are stealing copper wire, appliances, air conditioners, generators, doors or anything else that can be stripped from homes that are being built or setting empty.

I read an article recently from an electric company that stated, lots of their recent power outages were due to people stealing wire from their substations and lots of times they would find the person electrocuted trying to remove the copper. If people will go to that extent to try to steal copper, then where would they draw a line when it comes to our safety and property??

I think that the situation will only get worse. They have eliminated all discipline from our schools,and if the parents discipline their children at home, then we are the ones that get into trouble. Can you imagine growing up without any supervision to speak of, then one day you become old enough to be held accountable and the rules all change? What you had been getting away with at home and school you are now being held accountable for.

Maybe the old story that says that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks has a lot of truth to it. Then why not start teaching at a younger age where you are a lot more impressionable? Are we too far gone to correct this problem? I don’t think so, but it will take several generations to change the mindset of everyone.