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re: England Riots August 2011 (Was London Riots)
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Originally Posted by Stuart
Sorry, but I don't think your average 15 year old would be thinking of government cuts when he or she is looting a new phone/game console/pair of trainers.
In fact, I doubt that most of the rioters were thinking of anything more than what they could loot.
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Seems to me that people who don't live in deprived areas and have decent prospects are less likely to go on a looting spree. Not that that is an excuse for what we've seen, but I do think there has to be more to this than simply 'because we can'.
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