In my opinion, it’s bad. I grew up here in Evansville. It used to not be a bad place to live. It always sounded so cliché to me when someone would say things like “Back in my day, everyone left their front doors unlocked.” but now I know what they meant. Am I just feeling my age? I don’t think so. And it scares me. Now, I’m not talking about the global problems that you see on the evening news. I’m talking about right here on our front doorsteps. People are losing the qualities that make a person “good”. Values like pride. Respect. Courtesy. Humility. Dignity. I’m 34 years old. I shouldn’t have to worry about someone urinating on the side of my car while I’m at work. And yes, that happened just recently. At 4pm on a Friday afternoon I witnessed a man (only in the anatomical sense) relieving himself on the rear driver side door of my car. I park on the street. A busy street. Three blocks away from Evansville’s police headquarters. When I confronted the pisser, he looked at me through eyes that were barely open (he was obviously stoned) but he said nothing. He simply turned 90° to his right and finished his business against the street light post. I’ve heard many people that like to say everything happens for a reason. I’d like to know what the reason was for seeing that happen. Was it to make me thankful for what I have? Maybe it was to make me realize that I was taught by my parents to have respect for people and property. I already knew those things. Instead, I feel disgusted and distrustful. At what point is enough, enough? And what will be done about it? The prisons are overcrowded. Women have baby after baby to get more government assistance money. Men are getting those women pregnant and not taking any responsibility for their children. The children grow up with no morality and the cycle starts again. How long is it going to take before society completely breaks down? And when it does, then what? Do we revert to survival of the fittest? Natural selection does not seem to work in an artificially controlled environment. Some people would say that I just need to have faith in God and that He will take care of everything. Trouble is, it’s not God that I’ve lost faith in. It’s my fellow human-beings.