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Re: The Blameless Society

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From: Keith M.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:34
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"G. B." <gregp@telusplanet.net> wrote in message
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> Personal Responsibility
>
> Let's see if I understand the state of personal responsibility in society
in
> the last 20 years.
>
> If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap
> while driving, the restaurant is to blame.
>
> If you suck three packs of cigarette smoke into your lungs each day for 40
> years and die of lung cancer, the tobacco company is to blame.
>
> If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you blame the
school
> for poor sex education.
>
> If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, the
bartender
> is to blame.
>
> If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot heroin was
> dirty, the government is to blame for not providing clean ones.
>
> And, if your friend is shot by an angry neighbor, you blame the gun
> manufacturer.
>
> And, if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit and tries to kill the
pilots
> at 35,000 feet, and the passengers injure him instead, the airline owes
him
> a few million.
>
> If you choose a life of crime and finally get caught, it's not your fault,
> let us pay your rent, feed you, give you a law degree, and on weekends you
> can stay in a communal visits cottage with your honey. Don't worry about
> those 5 sentences, you'll serve them all at once, and you'll be out in 3
> months.

So why dont you commit a crime and get a free education? By the way - you
can get a law degree in three months?

Keith M.


> If you don't like facing your problems, here's some Prozac, that will fix
> the world around you.
>
> Actually, nothing is your fault, it was either your parents, your teachers
> or some rich, evil company that made you what you are.
> --
> GB
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Where are we going? And what's with this hand  basket?  -George Carlin
>
>
>
>
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