I’m slightly less noncey but yeah, I suspect we have different outlooks on life due to how we ended up where we are at this moment in time mate.
You’re married to a Vicar, have great morals and seem an all round good guy.
As long as there’s always far more of the population with your way of life than mine then the world should probably just about continue without full blown anarchy on the streets.
We both deal with all kinds in society though, mate. Yours in you watering holes and ours via churches and our front door.
I don’t get involved in the religious side of things, but I often take people to their local pay point to put money on their gas and electric whilst using my aging knowledge of the benefit system to work out what they can apply for whilst their UC has been suspended, which it can be for minute reasons these days. There aren’t “targets” for DWP staff to achieve, but they are rewarded if they suspend a certain number per week.
There are less “scrotes” where we are now, but having lived in Gorton for 4 years, we got to know quite a few and they ranged from utter dicks who didn’t give a shit about anybody or anything to those that turned to crime to exist. We don’t have a magic wand, so all we can do is chat and listen to them and try to direct them to a more lawful existence. Our success rate will be nowhere near 100%, but every one we change helps, right?
A lot don’t seem to have a sense of purpose. If we could give them that, with a way to earn their way through life, feeling valued, we’d have a lot less crime.
How we do that, I don’t know, but there are examples where someone respected in the community steps up and becomes the role model for these people.
