It is a no win situation.
Token fines do not work.
I will generalise but with the majority of people born since 1960 there is a different set of Social Standards employed by them compared to my older generation, they seem very much self centred only on themselves, their close family and friends.
Where is the respect for someone older than them that was instilled in us by our family and teachers?
It seems today that if your child does not have ADHD they are not normal, such is the rampant social problems with kids at school.
The world is doomed.
I think you are vastly underestimating the strength it takes to act respectfully towards those who regard us with such contempt. But do you know what? The majority of us do, even though we know the person we are helping is disgusted by us.
I was born well after 1960, at least 90% of my colleagues were (I'm so self-centred I haven't asked their ages). A couple of my colleagues were born after 2000. Do you want to hear how self-centred they are? Possibly not, so many who've felt the need to tell me have made their minds up and aren't interested but I'll try anyway.
My colleagues are so selfish they turned up for work every day and worked their whole shift even before we had PPE delivered.
So selfish they they worked through their breaks and stayed late because people needed care.
So selfish that they bent over backwards so they could hold someone's hand to prevent them dying alone.
So selfish they came in for extra shifts, often at short notice, when their colleagues fell ill one by one. The ones who became ill selfishly pushed themselves to come back to work as soon as no longer an infection risk even if physically not properly fit.
So self-centred the jumped straight back to caring for others (because it was needed) after participating in a filed CPR attempt on their own colleague.
Then when we had to isolate when my daughter was ill it was a selfish teenager whom I'd never met before that dropped bread and milk on our doorstep.
It's young people who've volunteered to act as welcomers and help manage the one way system. They're not getting paid yet turn up every shift they have volunteered for despite being shouted at and even spat at by members of the public.
There are a lot of selfish people out there, people who cannot see the point of doing something for another person and I believe the media encourages this mentality. It is not a characteristic I can attribute to a particular age group. For example, at the other end of the scale the person I know who self isolated by going to the corner shop instead of the supermarket (they were symptomatic) was born before 1950. Yes, I'm aware that is only one example, and yes I can find examples of young people being selfish and rude but they are being that way because they are ignorant individuals not because they are under 60.
