What Have We Become?

I was watching someone who was arrested by the police and taken to the station, at night, stayed overnight, brought back home and apparently it was because he posted hurty words or some such.  One person found them offensive and complained. Not hundreds or thousands, one person.  

These people were what we called the school sneaks, you know the sort, spotty kids who probably spent a lot of time alone staring at some sort of nerdy book and who just couldn't or didn't want to integrate at school.  They'd rat on others and they'd never really have friends apart from their own sort.

So, that's the sort of basement dwelling, anonymous, cowards we have to deal with today.  I have no idea how much time the police spent but you can imagine it was a few hours and more than one officer plus the station staff and then duty solicitor and so on.  Transport to and from the station.  And for what?  Os this guy dangerous to the public?  Did his hurty words offend the one complainant?  What on earth is going on.  There's kids getting knifed, other crime not followed up, just recorded but there's plenty of time to go and arrest someone and tell them off for incorrect grammar and hurty words.

The bottom line on this is that people take exception to it.  For goodness sake whatever happened to ignoring people if you don't like what they are saying.  Remember when if you didn't like something on TV you turned the bloody thing off.  Why sit through something that's annoying you and then after you've wasted another hour of your life watching it and hating it, then write and complain taking another hour of your miserable life in doing so?  

Here's the thing that I tend to do now more often.  I used to (and still do actually) receive emails selling something or asking something and often I am helpful in responding.  Yesterday a case in point where I was trying to assist someone who lives in Africa and listed down the steps he needed to take to join an organisation.  Obviously that wasn't good enough and it got to a point where on the third email which proved he hadn't read anything I said, I used all those lovely tools of blocking the contact and if you really want to, make it spam too so it kills it all off.

Now I could have prolonged the exchange but, life's too short.  I use these tools on my email and on my phone, they are great, you never have to hear from these people again.  I certainly don't go and complain about them to the authorities and just deal out my own form of justice of blocking and so on.  You can of course report people in Instagram, Facebook and the like but that's for flagrant abuse or phishing and similar scams.  If someone is abusive or just downright annoying, block them.  For some of my friends who get all "Soapboxy" and rant, mainly about politics etc., you can put them on a 30 day cooling off period. It just means you don't see what they've posted for 30 days and if they are still ranty then you can repeat it.  There's no real need to report them is there?  It's their opinion after all and whilst it's annoying that they publish and be damned and display a level of ignorance and negativity, naive analysis and reactionary outbursts to MSM headlines, you don't need to dob them in for it, just shake your head, push the pause button and wonder how these people get along in day to day life?

Anyway, that's enough for now I suppose but I do find it disturbing and disappointing that one person can take offence at something and cause a large amount of tax payers money on reporting it.  The cost for someone to be cautioned, the paperwork and all the rest of it is just another drain on society and it appears that the vast majority of these are politically motivated, because they can.  I liked it back in the olden days when you just ignored people, turned the radio or TV off or just chose not to watch or read the stuff that would anger or annoy you.  Just avoid it altogether and FFS get a life you little creeps!