http://www.webcogito.com/2006/01/19/the-blame-game/ Stop. Stay. Think. Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.webcogito.com/2006/01/19/the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Bassgravi Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:04:35 +0000 http://lucius.gambit3.com/?p=4#comment-6 *Just for the record, I saw all my typos after I posted. This is what happen when you don't proof-read, folks. *Just for the record, I saw all my typos after I posted. This is what happen when you don’t proof-read, folks.

]]> http://www.webcogito.com/2006/01/19/the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Bassgravi Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:00:40 +0000 http://lucius.gambit3.com/?p=4#comment-5 I sort of see it as gettin to this point in a another way. I think there has been a slow decline in people's idea of integrity as the possibilities of luxury are increased. For example, if you can find anyone who lived through the Great Depression, or even someone from a generation removed from that (barring Baby Boomers) and you talk to them, they have a very strong sense of personal responsibility, patriotism, and how a person should act (not just manners, but how a human being should relate to others). I think that we got to this point less by being restricted in choice, but by choosing selfish motives because people had never faced true hardship. So many people have never known what it is like to be without money, without food, without a car, a phone, a tv, fast food and restaurants, and surely dozens more of little conveniences that are so commonplace today. People now don't have to "grow up". I think people wind up shirking personal responsibility because they know that to take responsibility for anything could require the loss of some luxury that they either possess or desire. So, in the case of McDonald's suing people - I would say that it was more a petty attempt to gain more luxury, and renounce more responsibility, than an action that was somehow encourage and fostered by the restrictions that people are place under. I think the restriction are in place more because of the abandonment of personal standards and responsibility and I, for one, am glad they're there because it may make things harder for me, but that also means that they I saw picking his nose in his car the other day is going to have to get through the same red tape I am before he can access something that could give him the power to screw me (or McDonald's) over. *If there are any typos then let's just pretend they don't exist.* I sort of see it as gettin to this point in a another way. I think there has been a slow decline in people’s idea of integrity as the possibilities of luxury are increased. For example, if you can find anyone who lived through the Great Depression, or even someone from a generation removed from that (barring Baby Boomers) and you talk to them, they have a very strong sense of personal responsibility, patriotism, and how a person should act (not just manners, but how a human being should relate to others). I think that we got to this point less by being restricted in choice, but by choosing selfish motives because people had never faced true hardship. So many people have never known what it is like to be without money, without food, without a car, a phone, a tv, fast food and restaurants, and surely dozens more of little conveniences that are so commonplace today. People now don’t have to “grow up”. I think people wind up shirking personal responsibility because they know that to take responsibility for anything could require the loss of some luxury that they either possess or desire. So, in the case of McDonald’s suing people – I would say that it was more a petty attempt to gain more luxury, and renounce more responsibility, than an action that was somehow encourage and fostered by the restrictions that people are place under. I think the restriction are in place more because of the abandonment of personal standards and responsibility and I, for one, am glad they’re there because it may make things harder for me, but that also means that they I saw picking his nose in his car the other day is going to have to get through the same red tape I am before he can access something that could give him the power to screw me (or McDonald’s) over. *If there are any typos then let’s just pretend they don’t exist.*

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