Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.