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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by all_usernames on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:35AM (#13650793)
If you've spent your whole life feeling victimized by society then you do whatever little things you can to give a big middle finger back. If you're a Black single mom that has to work two jobs to get by, maybe it's easy for you to justify throwing your McDonald's wrappers on the parking lot ground.
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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by chrisbennet on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:18AM (#13651198)
I have a different theory: I call it the "raised by wolves theory". If a person doesn't have the benefit of good parenting/good examples, they grow up to be less socialized.

The single mom in your example may have had little parenting because her mom was working 3 jobs perhaps.

Anyone else remember the "don't litter" public service announcement on TV with a crying Indian?

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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by mercer on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:20AM (#13651474)
I think a much simpler explanation is that most people don't bother justifying much of their behavior in the first place.
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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by fao_ on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:56AM (#13650859)
The race of the person was not mentioned, it was interesting that you assumed that they were black -- although I do not disagree with your point.
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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by louhike on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:12AM (#13650918)
It was an example of a kind of person being victimized by society.
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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by J-dawg on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:33AM (#13651007)
This is an interesting way of looking at it. I wonder if this really is the psychology of people who do stuff like this.

If this is the case, it would be interesting to find out whether there is some correlation between wealth inequality and rates of littering.

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Re:India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi by 2muchcoffeeman on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:35AM (#13651286)
A counter point would be all the smoking middle class people I see everyday that throw their butts on the ground.
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