Niebezpieczeństwo nowoczesnego zycia. Jakie środki ostroźności podjąć idąc samemu przez miasto? Jak ty się zabezpieczysz? (the danger of modern living. how safe is it to walk alone in your city. what precautions do you take?)

The modern world isn’t easy and safe place to live. What we can observe is that the greater and more advanced development of civilization, technology and economy, the more dangerous it is to live.
But what do we understand by danger of modern living? In my opinion we can discuss it in two aspects. Namely the direct dangers like different arts of crimes to which average citizens are exposed and the indirect dangers - caused by the development of industry, technology which have got impact on our health and the way of living.
Of course at this point we could mention pollution and how it affects our health and the way we rest. We could also talk about modern food and how all these ”good” things we eat are bad for us.
But I would like, first of all, to concentrate on the direct danger of modern life, namely crimes and offences. Let me discuss different, more common direct dangers. Among these we can mention:
- burglary which is common crime nowadays, very often organized by groups of people;
- theft which is the easiest way to get money, cars or other things, very often practise by young people who don’t want to work because they are too lazy, and of course:
- murders.
There are many reasons why people kill the others. Sometimes murderers kill people because they want their money or they murder because they want to take their revenge. But nowadays many people, particularly kids and teenagers, kill for no reason however.
After what I told you I don’t have to tell you that walking alone in our city, especially after dark, isn’t safe at all. We have to be very careful and keep our eye wide open to see what is happening around us. Because we are really exposed to different dangers on the part of criminals and vandals.
How do we protect ourselves against all those crimes? It isn’t easy to answer it. We may take a lot of precautions but unfortunately none of them guarantees us safety. The things which we can do is for instancxe: protect our houses and cars. We should buy the modern locks or dangerous dog which would frighten the burglars. We shouldn’t show people that we have got money. If they think that we are poor they will not steal us. As I said we should keep our eye wide open to see what is happening around us and maybe it protect us against burglary or other dangerous things.