What the riots revealed was that a second kind of poverty stalks Britain; that as well as economic poverty there exists moral poverty. Television pictures of a group of youths pretending to help a young man injured in the riots while casually, and callously, robbing him were flashed across the world this week, pictures that seemed to express the moral deficit of the rioters. It is striking how little they seemed to care for their own communities and how self-destructive their actions appeared to be. Here was a generation disengaged from both their communities and from the political process, with no focus for their anger and resentment, and with no reason to feel responsible for the consequences of their actions.
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