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Article #38513Re: The Blameless Society
From: Keith M.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:34
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:34
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"G. B." <gregp@telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:vvQq6.9653$tr5.953722@news1.telusplanet.net... > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,9173a0f43b9a6542 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,9173a0f43b9a6542 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 10d4c6,9173a0f43b9a6542 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d4c6,public X-Google-Thread: fb374,9173a0f43b9a6542 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb374,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-11 19:34:06 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!news1.mts.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Keith M." <viking@escape.ca> Newsgroups: can.general,can.legal,can.politics,us.politics References: <vvQq6.9653$tr5.953722@news1.telusplanet.net> Subject: Re: The Blameless Society Lines: 63 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <JGXq6.4824$tn1.54611@news1.mts.net> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:34:29 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.81.20.172 X-Complaints-To: admin@mts.net X-Trace: news1.mts.net 984368937 216.81.20.172 (Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:48:57 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:48:57 CST Organization: MTS Internet