A McDonald’s restaurant in Liverpool, UK, recently introduced a new ban, people under the age of 18, unless accompanied by an adult, are not allowed to enter the purchase of food after 5:00 pm, on the grounds that staff are often verbally affronted and physically attacked, mainly from minors customer.
In addition to this McDonald’s, a survey of the UK retail industry in 2021 showed that 90% of frontline employees said they had been verbally attacked, 60% had even been threatened with physical violence, and 9% had Physically attacked.
The ban of this McDonald’s has actually aroused unanimous praise from netizens, and some even demanded that the same ban should be implemented in all stores across the country. But there are also a few who believe the store “suppresses” the freedom of teenagers.
This type of anti-social behavior (Anti Social Behavior) is a type of crime that can be reported to the police. Of course, the effect of follow-up after the event is almost zero; in other words, this crime has almost no consequences. This McDonald’s introduced the ban and tried its own way to deal with the problem. It doesn’t care about hitting a boat with a penny. Although there are a few perpetrators, all those under the age of 18 in Liverpool have to bear the price for the entire community.
The antisocial problem of teenagers is a specialized academic research, and the general research is attributed to the economy, but there is one main factor, which the academic circles seem to avoid deliberately, that is, the long-term leftward deviation of the education and welfare system in Western society, which makes the education of children and parents Decoupling, the collapse of family ethics, many people have children out of wedlock, or are raised by single parents, and even use their children as credentials to receive government benefits.
This McDonald’s ban has nothing to do with suppressing the freedom of young people, because politeness and respect, Manners maketh man, is not suppressing human nature, nor the right-wing intolerance, just common sense.
Tao Jie