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Police use YouTube to fight drinking culture

20 Nov, 2009 10:36 AM
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione turned to YouTube this week to stem alcohol-related crime.

St George and Sutherland Shire police have experienced a rise in alcohol-related violence and underage drinking recently.

Commissioner Scipione said Australians should examine their drinking culture.

"It is time for Australians to rethink our "she'll be right' attitude to this problem,'' he said.

"I believe the community needs to reassess our celebration of alcohol abuse, our infatuation with drinking to get drunk and out claim to the right to have yet another drink any time of the day, any day of the week.''

Do you think there's a problem with Australia's drinking culture?

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Once again the authorities have got it wrong but do something they must. The problem concerns the methodology the younger generation applies as an integration point for understanding anything. My parents applied the biblical method of antithesis where two opposites gives us opposite values like "yes" or "no" where certainty is possible. Today we live in a postmodern context where truth and knowing are purely the domain of the individual. Relativity is what most of us call it and perspectivism is what Nietzsche called it. Others call it the generation gap but what it really is, is an epistemological chasm. This means young peoples understanding of things will differ markedly from that of their older peers. Sin means one thing to one generation, and something else to the emerged generation. Hence the message is not being understood. We have 12 children but don't have this epistemological chasm in our thinking. Only God!
Posted by Hona Wikeepa, 23/11/2009 2:54:41 PM, on St George & Sutherland Shire Leader

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Stop the rot:  NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione wants to reduce alcohol-related crime. Picture: James Alcock
Stop the rot: NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione wants to reduce alcohol-related crime. Picture: James Alcock

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