Destroying Other People's Property Because You Didn't Get What You Wanted

It's pretty sad to see the state of consciousness some people are in. I think there are different motivations for why someone will vandalize other people's property, but they all indicate a low-level state of being and consciousness.

When some people don't get what they want, they get enraged, riot and destroy things. I think they do this as a way to try to "spread the suffering". As they are suffering, they want to make someone else suffer too. They will destroy what someone else has so they get something bad in their lives too.

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I was listening to the radio, and the DJ was talking about a Rolling Stones concert in Montreal during the 70s. He was mentioning how the Stones had received death threats by the Hell's Angels criminal gang.

When they showed up for the concert at the old Forum in Montreal, a bomb went off that took out the van with their instruments. Calls came with with claims of responsibility. Some people blamed the Hell's Angels. Other the French Quebec terrorist group called the FLQ.

Then he mentioned how the stadium was packed, all tickets sold out for $7 each. But there were fake tickets being sold for $20. This was a problem, as usual, when people get denied entry for trying to go see a show they paid for.

But at this show, a lot of people got pissed off for being ripped off and buying fake tickets. Instead of dealing with the fact they got ripped off by someone they couldn't payback, they took that suffering they were experiencing and externalized it through rioting and vandalizing the property of others.

Innocent people who had done people no wrong, were now the victims of the stupidity and harm of others who got scammed. Those who got scammed wanted to see a show, paid for it, but they bought it from shady ticket scalpers. Then when they didn't get what they wanted and got screwed by buying from strangers of the street, they chose to project their own suffering onto others and perpetuate violence and harm on other people's property. The riot police were soon called in.

This is a child's mind. A cry baby who doesn't get what they want, and who got injured by someone they can't target, choosing to just unleash carnage by vandalizing cars and windows of people who did nothing against them.

When I hear stories of riots, I always think of how childish and immature people are to engage in it. It's a low-level mindset and way of being. Any vandalizing riot is the same. Some people get mad at government and can't target the government, so they target anything they can to alleviate their suffering. They project their suffering and create more suffering for other innocent people who have to deal with harm to their property.

If some people can't get what they want (entry to a concert where they paid for fake tickets, justice, an end to government corruption, anarchy, whatever), they justify harming other's property, perpetuating suffering and doing wrongs to innocents, on the grounds that they themselves were wronged. As if that makes it all better. As if that is a "right" they have to do in the first place.

And what's even dumber, is when people riot when they get what they want. Montreal seems to have this problem. In 2008, the Montreal Canadiens won against the Boston Bruins in the 7th game of the first round of the NHL playoffs. Thousands rushed to the streets for what started off as a peaceful celebration.

But then some morons decided to be assholes and degenerate the celebration into mayhem and violence. it's possible they weren't even fans of the game, but just wanted a reason to be assholes and criminals and have the cover of a lot of people to get away with it. Police and regular cars were torched, burned and vandalized. Stores were vandalized and looted. Something similar happened in 1993 when the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup.

There are a lot of varying low-level consciousness individuals in the world who will use different justifications to vandalize and other people's property. Regardless of taxation being theft, it's often the public through the coercively-taken tax money that has to pay for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in damages. So even if you weren't directly a victim harmed by a vandal, the system of society makes you a victim anyways.

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