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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I'm not on trains much but a few years ago I was coming back from Sydney during rush hour and just nearby was a group of late teenage-early 20's males, shirtless, drinking and talking loudly about the tagging they were going to do. They were clearly out of order but also a bit too dangerous to annoy. Nearby were a couple of blokes who could have passed for undercover Ds, but then again maybe not. What made me think they were Ds is that one left the carriage and went out to the area near the door and made a phone call and when he returned the other sort of asked (more visually than verbally) "well?" to which the first replied "yes". I also noticed they were keeping an eye on the hooligans. Of course many others were too but it just seemed to me they were making sure the situation was under control so they didn't have to blow their cover. I was getting off the stop before them so I didn't if there was a welcoming committee at Wollongong Station. I hope there was!
Why do people act like this? Well, on the nature vs nurture debate I think this is nurture. We have this underclass of dysfunctional parents breeding (often like rabbits) dysfunctional kids. My sister is a mid-wife and she sees the start of the process all the time. [If you aren't going to try to be a decent parent in the maternity ward what will you be like at home?] Just recently they had one in that was having number 4, numbers 1-3 having been removed by DOCS. The child was born addicted and, again, will end up with DOCS. The problem is that DOCS only have enough resources to intervene in extreme cases. There is plenty of very bad parenting that nothing is done about. Often the friends and relatives of the dysfunctional parents are dysfunctional themselves so the child abuse just seems normal. It's a very sad state of affairs at turning it around would take a lot of effort, even if the political will was there to do something. Meanwhile this situation is a drain on the rest of society.
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compulsive sterilisation seems to be the way forward (for some) does it not?