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quinta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2011

London Riots

I found this video when I was searching about the subject, and I think that it really sums up what happened. Initial protests about the incident concerning the police and the young man shot quickly became a way for criminals (those youngsters who pillaged and burnt have no other names) to steal and provoke havoc.

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."

— Richard Dawkins