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Originally Posted by Flying Dutchman  This should come as no surprise to anybody, this is where our society has come too. We blame McDonalds and sue them for our kids being fat, when we are the ones buying them the food and getting it for them. We blame McDonalds for having their coffee to hot, instead of the idiot who put the cup in their lap to begin with. We blame Twinkies for murder, car manufacturers for making gas hogs.......hell, we make it more of a sin and health risk to go after a person smoking outside a resteraunt instead of making sure the cook washes his hands after wiping his ass and cooking our food. So now people want to blame the police for chasing someone, instead of blaming the person being chased.
Sad world we live in. |
I couldn't agree more, and I'll go one step further: It seems as though ore and more people are trying to duck responsibility for their actions (or maybe we're just hearing about more cases of this phenomenon), and I don't think it can be blamed on liberalism or any other politics. I think people have just started to assume that nothing is truly their fault as long as they can blame it on something or someone else.
To some extent, it's human nature to try and shift the blame when we get in trouble (why else did we invent the "the dog ate my homework" excuse?), but I think this instinct has reached epidemic proportions. No one is to blame for anything anymore; it's all someone else's fault. (which means someone is still to blame, just not the person making the statement.)
I have the highest respect for people who, when they make a mistake, stand up, admit it and accept the consequences without trying to duck them. They may not be heroes in the world's eyes, but at least they're trying hard to be decent human beings.