I feel you bro. It's a pretty sad to see this all happen. There are heaps of problems at the grass root level, but the most important of them all is the moral education at the primary and school level and of course lack of schooling itself.
This lawyer making that comment, is not just the mindset of that lawyer, but probably a BIG reflection of life experiences he had and the things he learnt while growing up with his parent, grandparents, neighborhood and school.
We need to work upon the whole society so that the life experiences the kids have are not the same as that lawyer.