Personal Responsibility
It’s funny, and at the same time frustrating, coming across stories in the news about people suing because McDonalds made them fat or they hurt themselves when they tried some stunt they saw on TV. Really? You didn’t know eating greasy foods at every meal and not exercising would make you fat? Or sticking a firecracker in your ass and lighting it could maim you? Really? Are you really that dumb? Seriously.
Since when is it my responsibility to make sure you don’t hurt yourself or that when you do, to see to your recovery? Don’t you think you can admit when you’ve done something stupid, and now you have to live with the consequences? Take a little responsibility for your own life and your decisions, please.
This is indicitive of a larger problem. It seems like people want to solve problems by treating the symptom rather than the actual problem. Is it really McDonald’s fault that you’re fat? Is it McDonald’s fault that you don’t know that eating 1,000-calorie meals without exercising is bad for you? Is it a television show’s responsibility to tell you not to jump off your roof on a bicycle? Should we punish McDonald’s or the TV show’s producers because you lack the common sense to know better? Oh, but what about the children? Can we expect them to know better? Maybe not. But those children should have parents or other adults responsible for showing them what is right and wrong. A parent or guardian should be watching what the child eats and seeing to it that the kid gets his fat ass off the couch to get a little exercise. Further, this guardian needs to tell the kid that those stunts on TV are dangerous and not to be attempted by anyone but those idiots on TV. And maybe that is the problem we need to solve. Don’t make it somebody else’s job to look out for you or your child. The responsibility to take care of yourself and the children you raise, and to teach them to be responsible for themselves, lies squarely on your shoulders.
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