This again ? Yeah this again …if you don’t like the take tough sh#$t. This incident has nothing to do with the “ good old days” …maybe it’s the clientele has changed and the manners and colloquialisms which were common waaaay back when. There was always a certain element in all groups but what we ALL see if being honest is Philadelphia is slowly going to the bottom of the barrel. You enjoy it and pretend it’s only an illusion . The price you will pay someday will make you wish that perhaps not all is acceptable to the general public.
You do realize, right, that you're making up all kinds of stuff I never said and attributing it to me?
Manners and colloquialisms way back? Like back when cutting in line could get you shot by a cowboy with a six-gun in a tavern out west? Or even further back when cutting in line could get you stabbed with a sword by a knight in a tavern in Europe? Today they're tossing tables and chairs. Sure seems like tossing tables and chairs is better than getting shot or stabbed, so maybe things have improved a bit since the good old days, no?
It's really pretty simple. If 1 out of 1000 people were troublemakers 1000 years ago, and if there are many more 1000s of people around today, then there are gonna be many more troublemakers than there were 1000 years ago.
That's all that's changed. People are people. Human nature's been pretty constant, not evolving very much since we lived in caves. But population growth, in particular population density, has forced the need to build societies and adopt a rule of law. And that has tamped down on some of human's more problematic tendencies some.
But there's always gonna be that 1 in a 1000 that's a trouble-maker.
You can point to Philly and say it's a problem because there's so much more violent crime than 100 years ago. That would be true.
But you can also point to Philly today and say there are so vastly more people, who never commit any violent crimes their entire lives, than there were 100 years ago. That would also be true.
You seem to focused entirely on the former truth while entirely ignoring the latter truth.