Tales of the Talking Tiger

Imagine if all people could always be trusted to do the right thing. (I realise by using the word ‘right’ I’ll get some people offside, but I think you know what I mean). Here’s what we wouldn’t need anymore:

- locks on letterboxes, cars, house doors
- security checks at airports
- signature checks on credit cards (well, this doesn’t happen usually anyway!)
- security cameras in the city (and just about everywhere else)
- security patrols
- passwords and pin numbers
- ticket inspectors on trains and buses
- parking inspectors
- tax auditors
- speed cameras
- red-light cameras
- lie-detectors

What else can you think of that would be obsolete if all people could be trusted unconditionally?

Can you imagine this world?

Of course, you and I and everyone else are the reason a world like this needs to be imagined, and not experienced as a daily reality.

The very fact we need ways of making things and keeping things secure points to the fact that the world isn’t as it should be.

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