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Originally Posted by Angela  It's those companies that need to be blamed and shamed and punished (and boycotted), not their victims. |
Yeah, let's blame Mcdonald's for people being fat. That makes sense. Companies make money by giving people what they want. I don't care how many times a company tries to sell me something. If I don't think it's healthy for me, I'm not going to buy it. And if I do, I won't blame them for it. That's what you do when you have a business. You find out what people need or want and you provide it. If people weren't weak to begin with, they wouldn't have any customers.
I'm only 24 years old. I remember exactly what it was like to be 14, 16 or whatever. SmellyOrc is absolutely right! Those are the kinds of people that will make something of themselves. Most of the people I went to high school with have kids but no career and their life just stinks. But at least they had a good time being "kids."
You know what I find funny? When teenagers reach the age of 18, we expect them to be adults, when just two years earlier at 16 we thought they were vulnerable and shouldn't be blamed for doing certain things. Does that make sense?
We expect kids to become adults as soon as they reach 18, but they are treated as kids right up until they reach that age. People don't grow up from one day to another. It's gradual, which is why they need to start being held responsible for their actions way before they reach the age of 18. We need to stop making excuses for them, or our future as a society looks very sad.