An angry baker called out thieves on social media for swiping up to £90 of cakes from her village honesty box - only for people to blame her for 'dangling a carrot' in front of the vulnerable.
Here we go again with the modern meaning of the word 'vulnerable' - just what is it they are supposed to be 'vulnerable' to, other than temptation?
Many Facebook users supported the mum-of-two's idea and said that 'selfish' people should be 'ashamed' they are ruining the honesty box for others. But others branded it 'daft' and suggested she was 'dangling a carrot' in front of vulnerable people.
One commented: 'Haa. If I was struggling or homeless and there were cakes sitting there, I would also help myself.
'Same with kids who don't have cash or nothing good from home! Not to mention the tearaway and stoners!!
You wonder what sort of life this person has, if the idea that perhaps it's not a good idea to help yourself to things that don't belong to you is treated as a bizarre concept, not worth even considering. And perhaps, if her attitude is so widespread now, a clue to why society appears to be devolving..?
'Try securing, protecting and managing it and not expecting the other eight billion people in the world to think and act like you want them to. You dangled a carrot and now you're sad someone got a bite.'
A second agreed and said: 'We live in a dishonest world. If kids get wind of free cakes, what's going to happen? Daft idea to begin with.'
Do we live in a dishonest world? How did it get that way? Was it because people like these were never taught right from wrong?
However, one commented: 'Whoever you are who are taking and not paying should be truly ashamed of yourselves. 'This lady works so hard to bring joy to many many cake loving people and you are just spoiling it for the majority. Do the right thing please.' Another said: 'Oh that's rubbish, I don't understand what's wrong with people these days. So selfish.'
Me neither. But a world in which no-one ever tried what this lady tried isn't one I think I want to be living in....
6 comments:
Living in the wonderful English countryside all of my formative years no one worth the time of day would ever consider stealing food from an honesty box situation, next thing they'll be lifting the charity boxes, oh wait.
Would never have dreamed this country would descend into the hole its become over the last 30 odd years especially.
Honour and integrity vanished round the U bend, moral and behavioural standards in the gutter.
The fish rots from the head down, when politicians and supposed leaders and celebs are seen to shamelessly have their fingers in the till and the morals of the sewer rat no surprise monkey see monkey do it becomes the norm for the lemmings who follow their lead.
I'm reminded of a tale about an Italian shopkeeper who visited London. He was impressed by the unattended newsstands, a table with a pile of newspapers and a saucer for the coins. He returned home and placed a table and papers on the busy corner near his shop. Within half an hour newspapers, saucer and table had disappeared. I read that story in Private Eye in the seventies or eighties.
Some twenty years ago, an article in the Times Educational Supplement railed against the practice of teachers ‘imposing their middle-class values’ on pupils - values such as ‘the belief that helping yourself to other people’s property is always wrong’ - and stated that schools should regularly monitor lessons to ensure this is not taking place.
It’s an odd equivalence - my working-class grandparents would have been utterly horrified at the thought of taking someone else’s belongings - and presumably the product of the same self-aggrandising guilt which drives the current educational agenda on race. I thought at the time that this attitude, if widespread enough (and the Marxist leadership of the teaching unions implies that it now is), would be disastrous for a society based on principles of honest behaviour and trust.
(Not all teachers are fellow-travellers; spare a thought for the increasingly beleaguered souls keeping their heads down in the staffroom and trapped by the union monopolies on legal cover for past service - all the more necessary given a growing tendency for denunciation by the Red Guard among younger colleagues.)
"...values such as ‘the belief that helping yourself to other people’s property is always wrong'."
Lefties have always believed that theft is OK if the state does it. It doesn't take much of a leap from there to saying that theft is morally justified for everyone, especially when other people have obviously got too much.
Stonyground.
Judd’s comment reminds me that, back in 2012, a Cornish man was found guilty of stealing a Lifeboat charity collecting tin from a pub.
Some months later, in a violent storm, the local lifeboat crew were called out to a sinking fishing boat. One of the men they pulled from the sea - at considerable personal risk - turned out to be the opportunistic thief.
Thinking about it, the Front Bench penchant for designer clothes and glasses or top-flight concert tickets suggests a compound irregular verb, at least for those of a Leftish persuasion:
- I get by (but could do with more)
- You are comfortably off
- He has obviously got too much (and should be relieved of most of it for the common good)
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