What's causing the current spate of violence?

A man gets stabbed to death in a restaurant for complaining about the slowness of the service.

Taxi drivers are at risk - and fear for their lives.

People are attacked on trains and at railway stations.

Rocks are hurled at tram drivers.

Nightclubs have become dangerous venues - bashings are a regular
occurence - drinks are being spiked.

Bullying at schools has increased.

What's going on, and why? And how do we solve this?

Any thoughts?

Most likely caused by the massive increase in the use of Ice.
Speed used to make them feel invincible, ice fries their brains.

First, I think we need to establish that there is a current spate of violence. A handful of newspaper reports don't equal a "spate". A man was recently stabbed, but are stabbings more frequent now? If so, more frequent than when? Are taxi drivers really getting attacked more frequently? What makes you say school bullying is increasing? And I have friends and relatives who go to nightclubs in Melbourne and Sydney every weekend very safely - which ones have become "dangerous"?

To answer your question meaningfully, we need to establish if levels of violence have increased, where they've increased, when the increase began, and what was going on within the community at the time.

Jeez Vanilla, why do you have to be so rational?? And spoil all our fun? There's rampant violence out there, we shouldn't leave our houses, I saw it on A Current Affair. It's an epidemic!

i blame the schools. and the medja. and the pollies, of course. and parents. but the fundamental problem is 1,000,000 years of evolution.

genetic engineering will fix this soon. cybercontrol of proles will provide a good interim solution. and while we're waiting for this engineering, we can reduce the problem by castration of all males before puberty.

Sorry, Countryboy, you're right of course. What I meant to say was:

RUN FOR THE HILLS PEOPLE! RUN FOR THE HILLS!