摘要："Every time I see someone filch a load of steaks from the supermarket, or jump through the Tube barriers without paying – the sort

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The Week UK 29 March_2025

A nation of shoplifters

"Every time I see someone filch a load of steaks from the supermarket, or jump through the Tube barriers without paying – the sort of routine law-breaking that happens so often now – my trust in the people around me is eroded. What is so corrosive about these petty misdemeanours is not the loss to supermarket shareholders, or even to train operators’ balance sheets, but the slow, progressive sense it creates in law-abiding observers that nothing matters that much, that nobody is following the rules, that there isn’t much worth defending. It’s a small step from there to asking the question: why should I follow the rules if nobody else is?"

Charlotte Ivers in The Sunday Times

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《小偷横行的国度》

“每当我看到有人从超市顺走成堆的牛排，或是跳过地铁闸机逃票——这类如今司空见惯的违法行为——我对周围人的信任便消减一分。这些小错事最具腐蚀性的地方，并非超市股东的损失，甚至不是铁路公司财务报表的缺口，而是它们让守法公民逐渐产生一种感觉：一切都无关紧要，无人遵守规则，世间无甚值得守护。人们由此很容易进而发问：如果别人都不遵守规则，我为什么还要遵守？”

——夏洛特·艾弗斯，《星期日泰晤士报》

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