Criminals

Bernard Shaw said that "all men mean well". I don't believe it. Take the TV play from Sicily called "Inspector Montalban": the first installment featured some very shady dealings in which young boys were shipped from North Africa, Morocco, Tunisia etc. to Sicily in order that they, according to an investigating reporter, were to be sold off to various people to beg on the streets and to be "owned" by paedophiles. Now, this is a piece of fiction and might not actually represent reality, but I hardly think that the author of the books on which the TV series is based would make this up for sheer entertainment. No, it must be true that this sort of thing happens. And it's pretty obvious that the men involved in this nefarious activity do not "mean well"; they do it for money with little or no thought of morality or humanity involved. Just as the slave trade ran for centuries with so called "respectable" people greedily helping themselves to the profits. They didn't "mean well".
Another play on TV recently in the series "Silent Witness" involved young Asian men in the north of England grooming young white girls and drugging them in order to sell them for profit to older men who paid for sex with them. This, of course, went on in reality. One could hardly believe it, that there were such men that had no regard for the feelings of the young girls. They didn't "mean well".
Shaw believed poverty to be a crime and that it led to other crimes. Maybe some crimes could be explained or excused by people's poverty as in, for example, Les Miserables where the man is deemed to be a criminal because he stole - was it loaf of bread? - to feed his starving family; but not the two kinds mentioned above that the two TV plays bravely and brilliantly highlighted.
I say "bravely" because, in the case of the Asian youths, there is a reluctance to draw attention to what is thought to be by some the "cultural differences" between "us and them". And it being the BBC that produced the "Silent Witness" episode mentioned above, I have to admit that I was rather surprised that they produced it since there is, to my mind, a reluctance in the BBC to bring certain matters relating to cultural differences to the fore lest someone's feelings are hurt.