Dublin's "Rubbish Problem" is its Class System

It's strange how the issue of rubbish always seems to draw Dublin's class system to the surface.  What I find particularly maddening about this announcement is how it resurrects the concept of collective punishment, as if one resident who legally disposes of his rubbish, must still be punished, by having his neighborhood surrounded by foul-smelling polystyrene bags of rubbish, because he happens to live near people who refuse (for one reason or another) to pay for officially registered bins. 

While this draconianism seems to contract the very basis our concept of justice rests on, that every individual must be responsible for his own actions and must individually pay the price if he breaks the law, strangely, when the issue specifically concerns the more rebellious proleratariats the concept of collective punishment is suddenly resurrected.

 And illegal dumping is not the only issue that spurs a sudden medievalisation of public bodies.  Remember back to the loathed council taxes, then a leading Fine Gale minister announced that certain councils (where people within their catchment did not pay the council tax) would have their funding stripped, thus subjecting many people, who paid their tax, to collective punishment because of where they happened to live.

 So even if you pay your council tax and pay your bin charges (the legitimacy of which we can leave aside for the moment), if you live in a certain part of Dublin you are libel for collective punishment because of the seditious actions of some of your neighbours.  And while these punitive measures seem like a strange anomaly in such an individualised society, we have to admit that if you happen to live in somewhere like Gardiner St., you are going to be lumped into some haphazardly kneaded together collective mass, whether in a positive sense ("the Dublin working class") or, more often than not, a much maligned, lumpenised caste, like "scumbags", "skaners", "knackers", to name but one or two samples from the urban argot.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/street-cleaning-to-be-withheld-in-parts-of-dublin-due-to-illegal-dumping-1.1357615