On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:02 AM, ss<[email protected]> wrote:

> If you talk to people in the neighborhood, nobody likes this, but nobody is
> motivated enough to do anything about it, worrying that he or she is in a
> minority of one. Indians IMO suffer from a lack of motivation to change and
> correct other people - and any lame excuse is handy to avoid doing what needs
> to be done to instill civic sense on offenders. So the people who are
> offended (like you and me) also have a bagful of lame excuses for not doing
> anything:

The trick I've seen used here in Bombay to avoid walls from being spat
on or otherwise sullied is to have images of various deities on the
wall. This transforms the act of sullying to desecration and seems to
work.

-gabin

-- 

this too shall pass

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