I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, and you can’t prove anything!
I know I’ve said this a million times before, but I’ll say it again: humans suck.
A discussion with some of my co-workers a few years ago about what’s wrong with the world got me really cogitating on the subject. If you add it all together, I’ve spent days thinking about the answer. Of course, the subject of the world’s problems isn’t black and white, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a blanket statement that encompasses it all. There are many things that I could harp on, like our propensity to kill things that are different than us, or our affinity for doing the exact opposite thing we should do (even if we already know better). But the true reason humans are pieces of shit has always been so blatantly obvious that I couldn’t see it clearly (sometimes I need to be smacked over the head with something to get it)…
Humans do not, and will not, accept responsibility for their own actions.
Take the idea of censorship for example: it’s not enough to tell someone to be a responsible individual and decide for themselves and their offspring what they can and can’t ingest. They have to protest to ban books or to burn them; to divert the showing of controversial movies; to have chips in their televisions and video game consoles that censor programming; to make sure Walmart doesn’t sell magazines like Playboy and Maxim while turning a blind-eye to the automobile magazines that feature scantily clad women posing on the hoods of sports cars.
And what about someone actually admitting that they’ve done something wrong and moving on? Sure, there are times when humans will own up to screwing up, but that’s after the initial denial, investigation, news interviews, CIA probes, impeachment, Supreme Court hearings, and wasted taxpayer dollars.
The sad part is that, for most humans, such behavior isn’t their fault. You don’t come to your faults by nature; they’re a result of ideas and “knowledge” being pounded into your brain through indoctrination, usually and mostly by your parents. Just like your religious convictions, your political allegiance, who your favorite auto manufacturer is, or who your favorite sports teams are, you are not only taught, but forced into your faults and foibles. They’re the result of the psychological implications of your indoctrination and how you respond to it. The freer the thinker you are, the less psychological damage has been caused.
My point? From the time you squirt from your mother’s twat until the time you shuffle loose from the mortal coil, you are brought up to believe that your actions aren’t your own responsibility to control.
No? Bullshit? “Shenanigans,” you say?
You killed someone? Don’t worry, you were just temporarily insane! No fault of yours.
You were ten-years-old, and you beat to death a four-year-old neighborhood girl with a two-by-four? Why, you didn’t know any better… you were ten!
What about the time you snuck into your parent’s room to watch their illegal cable feed of Cinemax, and you caught one of the numerous Shannon Tweed softcore crime thrillers? That’s not yours nor your parents’ faults! They bought a television that didn’t have a V-chip in it, so blame Sony for making such a shoddy product! Not to mention the cable company they were avoiding paying because, shit, why should we have to pay for extra channels?
Your father caught you smoking his stash? It’s not your fault for finding it, and it’s not his fault for having it and not hiding it better! Listening to Snoop Dogg is what turned you into a weed fiend, after all.
And let’s not forget the time you were sixteen and you slipped that date-rape drug into that fifteen-year-old’s drink. It wasn’t your fault, honestly! you weren’t eighteen yet, so it’s not like you knew anything at all about the consequences of deviant sexual conduct… you probably didn’t even know what sex was, yet! Those minors sure don’t know nothin’ about nothin’, crazy kids.
You mean to tell me you jumped off of the roof of your house into a swimming pool full of jellyfish and alligators? Let’s not be so quick to accuse your parents of neglect and inundate them with the irresponsibility of their actions as well as yours, let’s arrest and sue Steve-O because he did it on TV one time! While we’re at it, let’s take in Mike Judge for doing a similar episode of “Beavis & Butt-head”.
I think I’ve made my point. If I’ve offended you in any way, then I’m sorry. It’s MY fault, after all. But that doesn’t mean your touchy-feely ass can’t still resort to kissing mine. Have a bad day.
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The US has already signed ACTA. I don’t know what we need to do, but we need to start another SOPA/PIPA like protest to try to stop ACTA. It’s actually WORSE then SOPA or PIPA and it’s a WORLDWIDE treaty.
Hollywood couldn’t buy SOPA/PIPA, so it joined with it’s counterparts & is working on buying the entire world.
EU Countries Sign ACTA Despite Protests of the Day: The EU and several of its member nations have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an intellectual property regime seen by some as the international version of SOPA/PIPA.
ACTA would enforce international standards for dealing with counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft, but critics say it will also lead to censorship and kill freedom of expression on the Internet. At one point, the treaty even mandated a “three strikes” approach to online piracy.
Poland was one of the countries that signed the trade agreement, despite a 20,000-strong protest against it in the streets of Warsaw. Protestors taped their mouths shut and carried signs with anti-censorship messages.
Other countries signing the treaty include Belgium, the UK, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
ACTA has already been signed by Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the US.
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