'Jostissi' from the alley

I know that violence should always be the last option. Or rather, I make a daily effort to convince myself that it should be that way, although there's a part of me that would like to give in to open and unscrupulous violence, to let myself go down the slide of vengeful fury and start dealing out until I'm completely exhausted. It would be good therapy. I'll ask my psychologist about it.

In any case, I've long thought that we citizens could do more to contribute to the punitive dreams of our representatives, who correctly interpreted the maniacal obsessions of the city's citizens by placing a Palma Municipal Police car in the middle of the busiest square in Ciutat de Palma to ensure that no one crosses it on scooters or bicycles.

But the City Council cannot place a car in every square or a policeman on every head, so I would like to propose a modification of the municipal ordinance that allows citizens to skip administrative obstacles and go directly to the issue of punishment or, as I like to call it (in homage hard-local), which citizens can manage justisis, justisis alley.

I'm not talking about legalizing firearms, just the occasional rock and broken rearview mirror. For example, those of the cars that park on corners, blocking the way, with no consideration for anyone but themselves and their haste. Try passing in a wheelchair, a stroller, or loaded down with groceries. I think in these cases, we should be able to take the justisis by our own hand and that breaking a window or puncturing the tires of the offending vehicle would almost be a civic obligation, a matter of pedagogy.

I also think it would be good to start going around the world with a bag of stones and macs of different sizes. I've always missed a good stone in the typical situation in which you're crossing a zebra crossing and some car decides not to brake. The best are those drivers who, despite being about to turn you into human compote, raise their hand in a sign of preemptive apology, so that in case they kill you or send you to the hospital you know that at least you've fallen under the wheels of a good person.

It wouldn't be a matter of justisis Respond with a stone? By raising your hand immediately afterward, so they know we too are people of peace.

These are the two cases that have just come to mind, but I'm sure there are dozens of situations in which the citizens of Palma can contribute to a deeper understanding of the word 'civility' by our fellow citizens by exercising more proactive activism and showing a firmer commitment to the zero tolerance policy promoted.

The justisis we are all.