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Many think, when someones action hurts everyone, I do not have to defend it. Like when someone litters trash in front of my eyes to the street. Since it is the same bad for everyone who walk along the street. But to make our society sustainable, we have to take every action personally, which is bad for us. Since when we do a lot of people stand together to defend public good. While a small number of people who do walk against public good are easy to handle.

This is nothing against personal freedom. But against antisocial behaviour. Sometimes we have to learn to defend public good as if it is personal good. Since we are part of society also every public park is part of our space...

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₿ujuX 4mo ago

I like this way of thinking, If we held this civic responsibility then there would natural be less government intervention, because most just carry on with life we then have paid positions and people who spend their lives following up with these anti social behaviours and keeping those accountable for them. I'm in the city and pretty much anything goes and people will simply carry on. Eye contact is rare, cohesion is low and it's best known as the three cities in one given experiences vary based on one's social location (gender, education, income etc).

freemymind 🇨🇭 4mo ago

Yes this is exactly what I mean. Institutions like police, school, street cleaners and other public service are definitely helpful. But it would be stupid to think it is enough when only they are responsible for everything. We can not all close our eyes, not listen and not speak when we see bad behavior.

Referring to the incredible speech by Jesse Jackson:

"I am somebody!", means I can act and take responsibility. Institutions will be there to back me up. When the other person does get furious and violent, I can and should ask for help. This can be the next person or can be the police. But far more likely the other person who litters their trash to the street actually knows their behavior is wrong. So telling them will might help them to walk the extra mile to the next public trash next time.

I learned this once when a friend at a open-air festival came back from the toilets. He entered the toilet, when someone left and he found everything covered in shit. So he approached the person to clean the toilet.

Since when he would not, he would have to use a shitty toilet or clean it himself. There I thought, that this story line adapts to so many situations in live. We see that someone does wrong. So approaching the person and request to clean up actually helps.