The Editor, Sir:

Regarding your story about people being evicted at Bodle's, what is your newspaper doing to sensitise people to the fact that one of the consequences of taking other people's property is that many times, those people will try to take it back?

What are you doing to sensitise people to the fact that squatting amounts to stealing, regardless of the economic and social plight into which you have placed yourself?

You show a picture of two-month-old Demar Nelson (foreground) resting on a mattress with his elder brothers (from left) Oshane, Odane and Namar. Those surrounding the two-month-old seem hardly older than four years old. What are you doing to tell mothers such as theirs that when you decide to 'make babies' you also need to think about how you are going to house and 'mind' them? Why should society be made to feel sympathy for people who obviously feel no sympathy for themselves?

The problem in our society is that too many of us are too willing to accept all manner of anti-social behaviour (squatting being one such) on the grounds that somehow society 'owes' people economic well-being that they can 'take' in any way they want. Everything is okay, as long as we can justify it on the grounds that 'man an' man a suffah.'

I am, etc.,

ANTHONY BEECHAM

anthonybeecham@yahoo.com

Via Go-Jamaica