That was going to be the title of my blog, but it was already taken. So I switched it to Kind of Like Writing, but this blog is still just my thoughts and opinions. My musings, much like Peggy Hill's, are ridiculous and have no basis in science. I think what I think because of the life I have lead, the man I have married and the children that I have had. My parents have also influenced my opinions a great deal, but my opinions often differed from my parents.
So yesterday I posted this status "have you ever had a status that was so true yet so polarizing that posting it would cause at least three fourths of your friends to delete you?" I got some silly responses and some serious responses. I tried to form in my mind exactly what I wanted to say that would not piss a lot of people off, but came to the realization that that was just not gonna happen so I said this.
"I haven't posted anything really offensive- I was just wondering if people ever had such a post. You know one about abortions or gun control or mental illness or the war or the president or the Dallas Cowboys or puppy mills or religion or prayers in school or creationism or aliens building pyramids or killing bin laden or waterboarding or violent video games or adventure time or Disney films or gay marriage or speed cameras or pot or personal responsibility. I was just wondering, that's all!" I got nothing after that.
Facebook gets pretty darn opinionated after a national tragedy, during a war or election and in the week before the Super Bowl and during the game. Hayley had made the comment that this was when she needed to avoid Facebook because it just drove her nuts! I think she is correct.
I grew up around guns. I watched war movies. MASH was on daily, twice daily, thrice daily. I, according to some doctors, have a mental illness. I cut for over twenty years. My son plays violent video games. He has always known guns, his father carries one for a living. My son does not publicly pray in school. These are all reasons that have been given for the horrible actions taken by different people in recent months and years. Horrible, horrific actions. Actions that I cannot even comprehend. Experts all over television and opinions all over Facebook point the finger at everything, everything but the persons that committed the acts. Where is the personal responsibility?
A couple of years ago, a kid got really pissed off at a teacher in school, tried to throw an overhead projector at him, missed and hit my Jacob. After that, I heard a lot of reasons why this kid did what he did. He had issues and blah, blah, blah. No one would just say that the kid was a shit and he needed to have been parented, not labeled. He needed to take responsibility, not be coddled.
Why can't there be more personal responsibility? Why can't there be awful people that do not suffer from a mental illness? Why can't they just be assholes, or pieces of shit, or evil?
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