BLAMING THE WRONG THING AS USUAL

Most things in life are predictable. Most people do not think in terms of cause and effect. This means that they think solely on the basis of effects. This means that they will never be able to understand what precipitated an event. They end up blaming the wrong thing and then they want the government to do something about the effect. This does nothing to remedy the problem because the cause remains.

Change the cause and the effect will change automatically. This is what needs to be done to remedy any kind of ill. However, this is what never happens in reality. This is because we have moved from a personal world to an impersonal one. Most people are taught in the public school system that there is no god. They fail to teach that God created the world out of nothing in a literal six days. This means that these young people are taught that the world is governed by impersonal forces and these forces must be controlled through the use of magic.

Believing that the world is impersonal has consequences for society at large. First, it removes all sense of personal responsibility. When was the last time you heard of anyone charged with a crime pleading guilty? No one publicly admits that they have committed a sin. They say that they made a mistake or they went against all the things that have believed in like John Edwards tried to do with his adulterous affair.

Personal responsibility is the cornerstone of limited civil government. This is one of the reasons that the civil government has grown so unwieldy because of a lack of personal responsibility. A recent example will prove the point. A part time employee was recently trampled to death on Black Friday at a Walmart in New York. A crowd rushed the doors once they were opened and this employee got caught in the melee and was trampled.

What occurred was predictable. The family of this victim is suing Walmart for wrongful death. This is wrongheaded. Who is responsible for this employees’s death, Walmart or the mob? The wrongful death suit should be brought against those who actually caused this man’s death, not Walmart. A letter to the editor in my local paper wants to see Black Friday outlawed. He like other non thinking people placed the blame on the store rather upon the true perpetrators of the crime, the mob.

Whoever is responsible for this murder will be held accountable by God on the day of judgment. No one is going to get away with anything. Hopefully, Walmart will refuse to pay anything for this lawsuit. I hope that Walmart asks the judge to dismiss this frivolous lawsuit. I hope that Black Friday continues and that what people will learn from this tragedy is to control their behavior. It was the behavior of shoppers, not the store that caused this unfortunate situation. Personal responsibility for one’s actions is the cure to this ill, not outlawing Black Friday. I hope that stupidity does not win out again.