Sunday, July 20, 2008

Personal responsibility at its best.

I have long railed against the lack of personal responsibility in America. If you know me, you know that I generally think people are too stupid to think on their own. When people think for themselves, they typically do stupid shit then refuse to take responsibility for their actions. The following story pretty much sums it up where a woman left her 4-year-old son in her car while she spent three hours in a nail salon getting her nails done for her wedding that day. This was in Florida, mind you, and the child died on the way to the hospital.

"Investigators say the woman may not have known her son was in the car.
They explain he may have climbed in to the vehicle without anyone noticing."

Obviously her nails were so important that she couldn't pay any attention to her kid who's four years old! Whenever I am with a friend that has children, they always know exactly where those kids are. If the kids have run off and we don't know where they've gone, then the search is on! It's all a basic sense of responsibility that any adult should have. Of course, that is one of the major issues with American culture today: no one seems to understand the need for personal responsibility anymore.

People should seriously need a license to procreate.

2 comments:

techcommdood said...

These excuses make me sick. As a father of 2, I can't imagine not knowing when one of them is in the car with me. This woman is either too stupid to waste air on, or is too selfish to waste air on. You don't leave a 4 year old in a car by themselves for any stretch of time, and certainly not with the windows up in the summer. This crap makes me insanely angry. I agree, people should need a license to procreate, and a degree to parent. Why? It's obvious that too many people are failures at raising kids.

darknova306 said...

Agreed. And keep in mind, with the way things work these days, you're not allowed to call out the parents for doing a shitty job. It's never the parents' fault anymore. There's always some excuse or there's some scapegoat for their lack of responsibility.