To me, your opening sentence, "Sorry about your friend," sounds both insincere and callous. Especially when you go on to defend the criminals and vagrants that litter downtown, proclaiming that "All city centers" will devolve into chaos and violence. We are not (yet) a society without morals or standards. We need not devolve into some sort of urban jungle. For myself, I choose to remain hopeful even when it seems that the good people of Eugene are "tolerant" to the point of their own collective suicide.