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Originally Posted by Mystique
No sense of right or wrong, no responsibility for their own lives, blaming it on the 'rich' people or the 'goverment' and they literally said 'we proved that the police cannot touch us'. Guess they were right.
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I'm not going to say what they did (are doing) is right, because riots are never a good thing for any society. Riots are a bit like fire, regardless of whatever the spark was they can quickly burn out of control if not stamped out quick. There are better, healthier, more productive ways of mass protest.
However - it has been a volatile year and all it takes is a spark to encourage people to do stupid things, riots or not. Even if many of these people are simply in it "for the lulz" (trivial reasons essentially), there is the underpinning of disenfranchisement with the establishment that helps create the conditions for mass civil unrest.
Unfortunately what I fear is that once the riots are squashed, everyone will move on to something else and ignore the causes for social collapses like this.