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It’s not my fault again

My last post on personal responsibility addressed who I thought was to blame. Now, for something not entirely different. In this country, we also blame objects for actions. It’s very easy to blame crime on guns, an inanimate object, instead of the crazy, whackos who pulled the triggers. Or three wheeled ATVs, instead of careless drivers. So, we have to ban these items.

My favorite lately is this column. In which the headlines reads: SUV careens into crowd of people; two dead, 17 injured. Wow, this SUV suddenly developed free will and lunged into a crowd of people? No, if you read the article you’ll find that a person was actually driving it. But the implication, of course, is that the SUV is to blame.

To this end, we put warning labels on objects or just outright try to ban them. We’ve banned (or tried to) three-wheeled ATVs, lawn darts, those little Battlestar Galactica space ships that shoot tiny plastic missiles, and a whole slew of other things to keep us (and our children) safe.

Side Rant: I am convinced that warning labels will be the end of the human race. I personally don’t want the guy whose life is saved because he read the warning label on the aluminum ladder that said you shouldn’t put said ladder up against an electrical transformer in my gene pool. The lady who avoids death because she read on the automobile sun visor’s warning label that the visor should not be used while the vehicle is in motion should absolutely not reproduce.

Now, someone will think I’m a Nazi because of this and their retort will be ‘then why do we cure sick people, since they’ll continue to tarnish the gene pool.’ Because, we’ll eventually cure diseases. There is no known cure for stupidity.

Put simply, if you kill yourself (or someone else) by hurling a lawn dart in the general direction of a person, you’re an idiot. There shouldn’t be a class action suit against the lawn dart manufacturer. You should go to jail for your negligence (if you killed someone) or die if you killed yourself. Natural selection is a harsh mistress.

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