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Friday, July 26, 2002
14:49 - Burn Down the Bandwagon http://www.coldfury.com/Entries/00000239.html	(top)
It's all sweetness and light over at Fuzzy Fuzzy Kittens today, where the Plaintiff is Always Right, where the Evil Corporate Greed-Monster is always looking for a way to put more of its customers in the hospital, and where there is no cause so ludicrous that a lawyer is not willing to make his name for the ages as the Man who Took Down Big [Product], standing in proud honest defense of the sobbing victim of inexorable mind-control who might just be able to get ever so slight an amount of solace from a huge cash windfall. Just a slight one. Well, maybe just a little more. (Hint: not really.) It's about the recent "fast-food liability" case, where people have evidently taken the successes against the tobacco industry to mean that the same convictions of wrongdoing in those cases obviously mean that any purveyor of widely-enjoyed products is doing exactly the same thing. Ronald McDonald is just like Joe Camel, you see. KFC is an addictive drug. Chalupas are infused with "deliciousness crystals" which force kids to go back to Taco Bell day after day after day, against their wills, poor dears. Of course it's not their fault that they're fat and unhealthy. It's the evil fast-food corporations, the ones who must market their deadly wares to kids because their older customers keep dying. This culture of "no free will" is getting way out of hand. I'll say it again: Ever since they forced Beavis to stop saying "Fire" because some kid burned down his house, I've been extremely cynical about cases like this. I'm no friend of cigarettes (particularly in public), but nobody has to start smoking, particularly not in this country, not in this day and age. (Heaven help you if you go to France or Russia, though.) I wish people wouldn't do it, but it's not the government's job to force people to quit; that's what families are for. And if people imitate what they see on TV or eat fast food, it is their own bloody decision. Once upon a time, people had to face the consequences for what they chose to do, and it wasn't society's fault or some corporation's fault or their parents' fault. It was their fault. They didn't get to sue somebody and go home with millions and wreck everything for the responsible rest of the world just because they felt they got a raw deal or spilled their damn coffee in their lap. I hold on to the vain hope that one day the pendulum will swing back around, and people will start taking responsibility for their own actions once again instead of casting about for someone to sue when things go wrong. Parents will once again take an active hand in raising (and disciplining) their kids, and they will be held responsible if the kid goes nuts-- up to a certain age, after which the kid himself is held responsible. Double standards, where football players get diplomatic schoolyard immunity and the persecution of nerds is condoned, will be done away with and will no longer lead to Columbines. And we'll all grow up to be responsible adults who understand that what we do has real consequences, instead of there always being someone to blame if we screw up. Sure, it's easy for me to say this, since I'm not at some kind of societal disadvantage like these plaintiffs are. But, well, I've got my own things to deal with, and I'll address them in my own life, on my own terms, thank you very much. Because if my failures aren't my fault, then neither are my successes my own achievements. And I'm not giving those up, dammit.