Humans operate on a "monkey see, monkey do" basis.

They model behavior, just like apes. They do what they see their neighbor doing.

The New York City Police Department has launched an internal probe to investigate a raid on a Staten Island bar. In a video posted on YouTube, police officers wearing jackets decorated with the NYPD logo can be seen smashing gambling machines at the "Beer Goggles" bar and putting confiscated cash into their pockets.

"A shocking video showing NYPD cops raiding a bar, smashing gambling machines and shoving confiscated cash into their pockets has become an Internet hit and led to an internal probe of the officers involved," The New York Post reports.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NYPD_pockets_cash_confiscated_in_bar_0202.html

This society is so degenerate that all this lawless behavior becomes self-reinforcing. Everyone sees everyone else "getting while the getting is good." The society spins down and down into complete lawlessness.

I have told you that I am working on jokes that take years to set up. The capstone of my career will be this piece: Your society will eventually put me to death. Its members will have judged me unfit to walk among them.

Get it?