You are not in Kharkiv or Gaza, and you are watching the demolition of a building in your own city. Such scenes are always painful. It's neither an earthquake nor a bombing, and people are trembling for their homes...
Because there is a moment in which no matter how the walls are erected and the bricks are arranged, they become a Home, someone's House. And there would have to be somewhat different laws...
Before the unfortunate tenants, they should certainly bear responsibility - both those who built the building without permission and without paying the necessary utility costs, and those who allowed it, and those who entered their property into the cadastre... But, since it is in some there was a building drawn from the urban plans, isn't it the case that demolition was the only solution?
Whatever the legal background or the order of guilt, today we are looking at people who are waiting in their homes to become homeless. That, whatever the path to such a situation, is inhumane.
Is it possible that there was no service that would have stopped such an illegal project at an earlier stage? And thus, if nothing else, saved people from the always terrible loss/destruction of the Home.
In the past decades, the rules here (read laws) have become too fluid. Sometimes they are valid, sometimes not... Some are judged, some are bypassed. It can be this way or that way. Montenegrins have an incredibly natural idea of merits of this or that type, which, quite logically, produce an exception to the law and any order of rules. Sometimes it's merits for (this or that) "project", sometimes it's family origin, sometimes it's sheer power or just a pile of money, but all of that is held up as a valid reason for a man to be above the law. That is, not to be in that "herd" for which the laws apply. It almost becomes a matter of prestige.
Many times, you, dear reader, too, have seen that openly celebratory expression on the face of every honest Montenegrin, when he does something against the law. And he got away with it. It is perceived as a kind of medal. For honesty and courage, ada, why else...
With such mental settings, it will be important, although not at all easy, to teach Montenegrins to live and work according to some, one way or another, rules.
The DPS decades brought momentum (unsuspected development, even flowering) to this type of deviation, and it is unlikely that the current government will have the brains, time and courage to change something.
People get used to lawlessness easily. Man as a being of moral impulse is a necessary phantasm and a noble desire rather than a reality. After all, as long as some are more equal from others, you know you are a resident Animal farms.
The story of this building is just one of many in our eternal chain of corruption and lawlessness. And no one is completely clean. Thanks to the status of the building, the buyers probably had a more favorable price, and by agreeing to such a transaction, they also agreed to the possible consequences... Again, such an insight does not diminish the anguish and sadness of the scenes we watch and even more - we suspect. Because that creepy cosmos of losing Home is huge and dark.
After such events, whatever the final outcome, I guess people will have a harder time deciding to build without a permit, and, more importantly, to buy such a building. And maybe the state will finally find a way to stop such projects. In fact, the state could also remember that it exists and that it should act. If the state is not only party employment, it should also employ something. That no one experiences what the tenants of a building in Podgorica are living these days.
It is not easy to break bad practices, especially when they are so naturally and comfortably at home in a society. That is, it is a much bigger and more complicated job than demolishing a building.
But, creating new homeless people, I don't believe it can be a fair solution for anything...
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