People are always looking for someone to blame.
This. 1,000 times this.
Our litigious societies have resulted in a great deal of increasing sloth and the attendant disaffection of the working populace. Senator Romney was roundly criticized for his comments about the numbers of non-working people when he ran for president, but he was more right than not.
Between sometime workers, dropouts, the intentionally underemployed, single moms, gangbangers, dopeheads, basement dwellers, early "retirees", and disability pensioners, a very large percentage of the country is living on the backs of the working people, and it's growing worse every year.
And the problem is not only the trend that lawyers are the scions of upwardly mobile middle-class parents who want their kids to be rich more than happy, and more than productive. It is also the gradual moral corruption of sloth, of people telling themselves that they arer entitled to a lifetime of indolence because someone once hit them in a car accident and shattered their femur, or caused a concussion, or whatever. Never mind that they can work.
The same is true of those who have various disabilities that they claim warrant goverment or lawsuit compensation. Because lawyers need someone to sue, and therefore need to validate "victims" in order to justify excessive compensation and lawsuits. And because the lawyers continue to breed and reproduce, they've created an environmentt where businesses, and the the goverment itself, plans on paying settlements as a lesser cost than trials.
Social Security has become such a fiasco. Lawyers get all sorts of undeserving recipients through that it has bloated under the weight of many who are both liars and lazy. And it is impossible to fight the rot because the media will pick some singular example of injustice and employ The Green Mile propaganda principle where ALL prisoners are innocent because one was. And politicians cannot rectify the abuse because they get attacked as monsters and the media participates in the lynching because of the two-party divide in the county.
All that to say, people who began smoking in the 20th century or later knew it was unhealthy. They never gave a thought to what caused any kind of cancer, nor did they care. People who worked in asbestos knew since ancient Greek times that they were in an enterprise where people died young. They took the jobs anyway. Kids sneaking liquor when they were 12 and later drinking hard at 15 and becoming alcoholics in their late teens never thoughtt it was safe or wise, and they were not self-medicating. Like their pot-smoking and pill popping and coke-snorting peers, they just wanted to be badass and impress their friends and act like grownups.
But, social justice warriors need to add supporters, so they made exuses for every vice known to man. And because the media parrots everyone withtout offering statistics or fact-checking except when it is from the other side of the political spectrum, many people are deceived by the lies.
We make choices. When we choose the easy and lazy options, but then disown the consequences, we should be denouced as cowards and rounders and leeches on society rather than rewarded with settlements and guaranteed miminum incomes.
