OldAirmail wrote:Liberal trends
(as in - tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition) over the past 60 years have played down the idea that one is responsible for ones actions, and that self-indulgence is beneficial to your personal growth.
IE. - The Me generation.
Yes, you are quite right, but it is all or nothing in the US. At the other end of the scale, the right wing push an agenda that no one is allowed to make a mistake and jail is the only answer for just about ever crime. There is no happy medium. Here in the UK, (rightly or wrongly) the police when they have arrested you can charge you, release you or hold you for further enquiries for a set length of time, the same in the USA. However the UK police have another option, they can release you on bail. In the USA, you are arrested, it is jail until you are bailed out. No wonder there is such over crowding. Just about every minor crime involves a stay in jail before you are processed out. For example, swearing at a cop is just a lack of respect and jail is a pointless exercise. It costs a boat load of money, nothing more nothing less. Jail time should be kept for real crimes, for people who are a danger to others at the time of being arrest or for habitual or anti social behaviour for example. From what I have seen, as a Brit, I have been fortunate to do ride along with both local law enforcement and state, jail seems to be the first card played the majority of the time..... The question is how do you change anything. Does it start with the police then everyone thinks they have gone soft on crime, or does it start with the population, the government is tell me how to live my life.....?
As for the Me generation, that is the biggest problem of the lot. Oddly this appears to be only one generation old. I am only in my 40's, but the Me generation were no anywhere close to what we have today. I think the main culprit today is social media. Basically, life is not fair so you can whine to a couple of million people on Facebook or Twitter about it and get some sympathy. Sympathy, take a look in the dictionary, it comes between shit and syphilis....! Life is hard, get use to it and be responsible for your own actions.
Matt
"A bit of a pickle" - British translation: A catastrophically bad situation with potentially fatal consequences.
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1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
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