Moral principles needed
I have to agree with Keith Whitfield (Peninsula News, September 3) that the 1950s were indeed the good days in Australia.
Which begs the question, where have we gone wrong and what does the future hold?
Now our streets are awash with booze and drugs, firearms and violence.
Our culture, if that is what we can still call it, is devoted to and revolves around pornography, extreme violence and mindless vulgarity and we can only expect things to get worse.
One constantly hears public appeals for more police, harsher sentences and tougher gaols but I believe we should be looking at the system and the culture that produces people who want to commit crime and engage in extreme anti-social behaviour.
Police and gaols are the last resort.
Let us think about what we are teaching our young and why.
It is a hackneyed phrase but we must get back to teaching and encouraging some good old-fashioned moral principles.
Online Submission, 4 Sep 2012
Vic Jefferies, St Huberts Island