On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:57:54 +0000, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=AEi=A9ardo?=
wrote:

All lawyers and memebers of the judiciary should spent two years
living on a sink estate for a start.

What do you believe that might achive?

ISTM that if it achieves anything at all, it would be to make judges
more sympathetic toward people in such a situation, and they would
possibly impose more lenient sentences on any convicted of a crime.

Unless they'd had their windows smashed and their car scratched for
being "posh".

My response was to the suggestion that judges etc. should live on a
sink estate for 2 years. I took that to mean that they should live
*in the same conditions* as the people on such an estate.

Anyone who lives their life at a standard that is visibly and
considerably different to their neighbours is likely to be victimised.
It would be little different if a person who had lived all their life
on a sink estate were to inherit a house in a "posh" estate. Unless
they could and did alter their lifestyle considerably, it would set
them apart and they would be resented by their neighbours. Maybe they
would not have their windows smashed or car keyed (though it is not
all that unlikely that those things would happen), but they would
probably be subjected to forms of harassment that are just as bad -
even if they are legal forms of harassment.

--
Cynic