One thing I've been wanting to know - when was it that personal responsibility died? On every news channel, in every city, everywhere, all you hear is "it's not my fault
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Follow up - I think that people who WANT to help themselves and take responsibility and improve their lives should get the help they need, but no one should get a free ride. People on welfare should be doing public works projects. People on long-term disability can (for the most part) work in call centres that require nothing other than the use of a phone. Public housing should ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE that people are not using drugs and alcohol in order to qualify. Canada, and especially BC, should be putting drug dealers in prison, and not giving them a cookie and a pat on the head.
Honestly, car thieves with over 20 convictions are STILL not doing any jail time. Drug dealers with numerous convictions never see the inside of a cell. I'm sick of the attitude that nothing is anyone's fault, and that no mistake ever comes with a consequence.
But re: your edit, what set you off? I usually roll my eyes hard at any insanity defense, but that guy was clearly fucked in the head. And that...really isn't his fault.
On public transit, I refuse to sit in the window seat of two-person seat beside a stranger, and would rather stand if I can't get an aisle seat, because I like being able to flee quickly and easily. After hearing a story like this, well, I'm not so weird after all, am I?
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Huh. This isn't the sort of thing I expect from you.
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Honestly, car thieves with over 20 convictions are STILL not doing any jail time. Drug dealers with numerous convictions never see the inside of a cell. I'm sick of the attitude that nothing is anyone's fault, and that no mistake ever comes with a consequence.
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