I personally feel that the single biggest problem in modern society, is the lack of taking personal responsibility for our own actions. I think that as a culture we have allowed people the room to make excuse after excuse, and accept these as something that should be legit. What do I mean? Well w e see kids raised in families that love them, feed them, take care of them to the best of their means. Then the person grows up, commits a crime and says "Dad never told me he loved me!" People hug them and say, "we understand and we see you are just acting out on something missing from childhood." Never mind the victim in the crime or someone they murdered, the person was just "acting out on something that was someone else's fault." We see people murdering people, and then saying "I ate a Twinkie and it made me hyper" and then they get off, with people thinking that the Twinkie people should be more careful. (Actually happened in the state of California). We see people beating people up on camera and then saying, "they provoked me by wearing the wrong colored shirt." People are suing fast-food chains for making them obese. It just never seems to end. We say something that offends people, and the person gets upset, and what do people do. They blame someone else who told them to say it, someone who wrote it, or they blame their up bringing in the matter. They might even blame the Devil and say he made them do it. In the end, people expect us to accept these excuses and move on. Recently I read where someone lit themselves on fire, because they saw it in a movie and wanted to see if they could do it too. They burned themselves pretty bad, and now they are suing MTV for making the movie in the first place. "Please cure my lack of responsibility with a few million." I am so sick of people not taking personal responsibility for their own actions. If you did it, then it means you should take responsibility for it. Do not blame the system, your parents, your friends, a book or some movie you saw. You did the deed and should pay the price. Some where in your mind, you decided that what you were going to say or do was right or wrong. So, some where inside you need to learn, "it's time to pay the price for my actions." When will people see this? When will people stop blaming everyone else for what they do? I wonder, when will our culture wise up on this and tell people who whine "you did it, why should we punish someone else." Do not reward stupidity with allowing lack of personal responsibility. Reveal it for what it really is, "your responsibility and not another's for the actions you choose to do!" My Gripe Dragon
Edited by - kenpodragon on 12 November 2002 14:25:52