Citizen Protection Rights: Trash

At the old days of school, some students used to throw things in the playing field, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Teachers used to ask us then "At home, do you throw tissues on the floor after using them?" and we used to answer that of course not, but at that young age of ours (seven or eight years), we used not to perceive the full meaning of throwing things around, especially that there were janitors. Sometimes, students who were seen throwing matters were punished by being assigned to clean the whole playing ground, some other times, students were asked to volunteer to clean the playing ground. I don't know if that had any effect on me, and I don't even remember if I have followed this rule everywhere, at all times in my life.

Still, nowadays when I see people throwing trash out of their cars, or in the street, or I see long alleys by the sea full of trash, I cannot but ask myself why is it so impulsive for people to throw their stuff on the road. Is it because they don't want to go through the pain of collecting the trash in a bag and throwing it later where it should, or because of lack of education or because of lack of knowledge? Whatever the answer, and since every human action can always be reduced to one of the two governing emotions of Pain and Pleasure or to a mix of both, it should necessarily be that people throw their trash on the street because they feel more pleasure doing it than collecting their trash for later disposal, and more pain in holding that impulse. Maybe they feel proud about it?



Anyhow, and things being what they are, these untidy people are affecting a whole country, so in my opinion, the only solution to this issue is to enforce the pain related to throwing trash in the street in these people and also the pleasure related to not doing it. This can be executed in the following way: Whenever someone is seen throwing garbage in the street, he should be convicted, he should be made to pay some penalty and in the same time to execute some cleaning task. Very easy to track, easy to execute, and easy to set as an example, especially that people that are throwing all their trash on us are not hiding to do it. They are doing it proudly in public places, and the worst thing is that they do it in places they go to themselves. So it's only logical that they do the cleaning themselves.

This is part of what the citizen protection rights should consist of!