Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 487. The lesson today is the difference between
vandalism and sabotage. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot do it right now. All right. Let's get
right to it. If somebody does vandalism, a person is purposely destroying public property, often
it is just malicious destruction of public property and it's sometimes done just for fun
or just to be mean. Okay. So it's usually not a big agenda behind it. All right. Let's continue.
If sabotage is done someone is purposely trying to hurt an enemy or opponent or trying to interfere
with or prevent what someone is doing that you strongly disagree with or are against.
So in this case there really is definitely an agenda with sabotage. All right. Let's continue.
Sabotage is often done by enemies in a war situation , by protesters who hate a company
or organization or government, disgruntled employees. Remember employees that for some
reason or another became very unhappy employees and really kind of hate their job now. Maybe they
were skipped over for promotion or they got some real sort of bad embarrassment at work or whatever
it is they become very unhappy employees and they want to hurt the company over that
or who hate their employer. All right. Let's continue.
And we got seven examples to show just how you know we will use it. So you can
clearly see a difference between one and the other. All right. Here's the first one.
Some people say unauthorized graffiti is a form of vandalism. Yeah. So when people do graffiti,
like if they write graffiti on the wall they're probably not writing it on the wall because
they're trying to hurt that person with the wall. They may not even know who owns that building or
whatever. They don't care. They're just trying to have fun drawing stuff and they're doing vandalism
in that sort of sense. So they don't really have an agenda. They're not specifically trying
to hurt somebody or think anyone in particular is their enemy. No. Not usually anyway. Number
two. Destroying public phones for fun was an act of vandalism. Yeah. Sometimes I've seen that. I
remember when i was growing up New York City some some people you see, they just destroyed phone.
Who knows why ? Maybe they were crazy or they were angry. Maybe they're angry at the person they're
talking to and they start hitting it. I don't know, but whatever it is or maybe they just did it just
to see if they could actually break it. Were they mad at the phone company ? Probably not.
So this is kind of like vandalism. All right. Let's continue. Number
three. Damaging public property just because you know, you can get away with
it is an act of vandalism. So a lot of times when vandalism is done that's why it's often done. It's
often done because I don't know maybe it's just fun to be bad or it's fun to break things or
fun to destroy things. Again, you may not even realize or care about who you're doing it to or
that it's just to the public. So maybe you don't think it hurts a specific person. That's usually
more like vandalism. Well, let's look at number four. That environmental group tried to sabotage
this company. They believe it is poisoning the environment by blowing up one of their buildings.
Yeah. We've heard of groups like that that do things like this. Here they are very clearly
targeting somebody. They think that is their enemy and they're doing it on purpose. They're
trying to hurt their enemy or hurt their opponent or hurt the ones that they believe are bad people.
All right. Number five. They tried to sabotage his campaign by releasing negative info on him.
Yeah. They're trying to specifically hurt a person. They're doing it on purpose.
They're trying to stop that person from succeeding in what they want to do.
All right . Number six here. That disgruntled employee sabotaged the company he works for as
an act of revenge and maybe again maybe something maybe used to be a good employee at one time but
somehow he was either embarrassed or humiliated or skipped over for promotion or something
where his whole attitude completely changed and maybe he still didn't quit. He didn't leave,
but he's trying to do things that might get you know, hurt the company kind of as a way of revenge.
All right. Number seven. That insurgent sabotaged the military line of transport by blowing
up that bridge. Yeah. So again, a war situation. So whoever is fighting against the other one they
may sabotage something to slow down the enemy or the one they're fighting with or somehow get in
their way or hurt them. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope now you can
clearly see the difference of between vandalism and sabotage. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.