Thursday, July 10, 2003

No One To Blame Hold on a second while I climb up on this soapbox. What the hell ever happened to being responsible and accountable for your actions?  Why does everyone want to be the victim and not the victimizer?  Howard Jones once sang about how no one is ever to blame, and it seems like many people are singing that as if it were a gospel song. Take for instance the girlfriend of the Doug Williams, the guy who shot fourteen people, killing five, earlier this week in Mississippi.  She had the audacity to stand up at a memorial for the true victims today and say, "Don't criticize this man. He was human too ... don't exclude him. He was a victim, too. ... He was a kind and loving human being." What?  I know love is blind, but does it also make you stark raving stupid, too?  How does murdering people put you in the category of "kind and loving"?  Not even Jack Kevorkian would get onboard with that.  And I'm sorry, lady, but if you're the one pulling the trigger at someone who is not threatening you in any way, you are NOT the victim.  Ever. Lots of people are claiming to be victims lately.  Sammy Sosa was a victim because he cheated with a corked bat and got caught. He claimed he didn't know it was a corked bat, though any professional at anything can tell you if the tools of their trade are legit or not.  But he tried to tell the world that a guy who swings bats for a living, all made especially for him at a set size and weight, couldn't tell that the one he had in his hand that day wasn't significantly lighter.  Instead he was a victim of the media and they weren't being fair to him.  He cheated, but it wasn't like he shot and killed five people, right? The media is already getting some blame about Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault this past week.  He's already being protrayed as a victim by some of an over-anxious sheriff's department.  In fact, you can already order your Free Kobe t-shirt. People who do drugs are victims of their addictions.  Fat people are victims of the companies that sold them the food.  I even had a student a couple years back who cut-and-pasted an entire research paper off the internet, got caught by me for plagiarism, and then cried all over school about how it was my fault.  She was the victim.  I was the bad guy. Sometimes the true victim tries to give up the title and hand it to the person that hurt them.  Jill Garza was run over by her loving boyfriend three times, yet she claimed in court that he's not a violent person.  Please, please, please let them not have any children. Bottom line:  if you've screwed up, especially to the point where you've hurt others, don't try and paint yourself as any sort of victim.  It's despicable.   People may never forgive you, but you'd have a much better shot at that forgiveness if you just admitted you were wrong.  By the way, if you're a hypocrite, you might want to fess up to that, too.  Now can anyone help me off this box? Barely related links: Don't be a victim of the rhythm method Don't let anyone pay you way too much money for too little work 7:56:38 PM     |

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