Its a riot

I don't know what to make of the recent riots.  Its a hard one.  I think the riots represent something other than the issue of lawlessness, looting and violence.  It seems to be a worrying change in fundamental ethics.  Let's not worry too much about how it was organised (which it was) but more on the point that the general opinion I saw in interviews was that there was an understood consequence to being caught, a view of probability of being caught and a relatively clear view of the benefits that could be obtained by the crimes they were going to commit.

The idea of this calculation is worrying.  It says that right or wrong was no longer a sense of ethics and morality but one of risk management.