Don’t Play the Blame Game!

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Don’t Play

the

Blame Game!

      Friend, I think it would be true to say that practically all of us have made fun of the silly excuses and lame courtroom justification people have offered for their behaviour, whether simply foolish or downright criminal. People seem to have this uncanny knack for making a scapegoat of others and shifting responsibility. It’s certainly easier than holding oneself accountable. It’s less embarrassing than offering an apology. It’s less costly than honesty.

      Some years ago, a federal judge in the U.S.A. proved that common sense still prevails when he dismissed a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s. The suit had been filed a few months previously and sought unspecified damages. It blamed the burger-and-fries operation for obesity, diabetes, and other health problems in children.

      One of the lawyers involved in the suit had filed several lawsuits of the same type last year. In one of them, a 135-kilogram maintenance worker in New York alleged that eating food at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and KFC had caused him various health problems.

      U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet said: “The law is not intended to protect people from their personal excesses.” What a remarkable idea! And what a transforming effect it would have on society if people took it seriously!

The judge ruled, “If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of McDonald’s products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain... it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses. “Nobody is forced to eat at McDonald’s!”

      Friend, not everything that happens in someone’s life is a result of a bad choice he or she makes. There are birth defects, abusive persons, prejudices, criminal acts, accidents, and a host of other things that hurt people, and for which they bear no personal responsibility. It is right to protest those things. It is our duty to give relief to their victims when possible. Sometimes the courts will come into play. We have an ethical duty to bear one another’s burdens in those situations.

      But it is also true that we reap what we sow. Each of us are responsible for the decisions we make. We are obliged to face up to our fallibilities and failures. Sometimes, it’s easy to imagine that everyone else has problems, and it’s our job to go around straightening all of them out!

We must

     We don’t want to be like the man who went into the psychiatrist’s office carrying a watermelon under each arm, a piece of bacon wrapped around each ear, and a large horned owl sitting on his shoulder, who said to the doctor, “I’ve come to talk to you about my brother.”

“Use your words to build confidence in others.”

Friend, throughout a lifetime, it is less what happens to you and me than our own choices and patterns of response to undesirable events that decide outcomes. Therefore, if you and I are to make a success of life, it is important we face life’s realities – its limitations and changes, its surprises and unexpected turns, its timed nature, and death. So, if you would like a formula for facing life’s realities, we would be happy to send you a copy of “THE SUCCESS PLAN!”

     “THE SUCCESS PLAN!” contains eight important decisions that will help you make the right choices for a successful life. To receive your FREE copy, write to Discovering A BETTER LIFE, Apartment 49/ 2 Plantation Street, Menora, Western Australia 6050. Or email us at: abl-alb@omninet.net.au

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