I just saw an old episode of "Will & Grace" titled "A Gay/December Romance". As a side story to Will's sugar daddy story line, Grace was involved in a boycott on a noodle restaurant called Happy Noodles. It all started when she dropped her take out noodle because it was hot and she was careless about it. When the owner won't give her a replacement noodle for free, she got upset about it. In her mind, she should have been warned that the noodle was hot and she argued that the lid was not closed completely. She believed she was wronged instead of taking ownership for her own carelessness, so she went on a crusade to tell her friends not to eat at Happy Noodle and even picketed the establishment.
We laugh about this situational comedy and how ridiculous Grace behaved but it does reflect American mentality in general. We as a society have the tendency to rather blame someone else than take responsibility for our own actions. Why do we have so many lawsuits in general? Many of which are so frivolous that it defies belief. Why do we have so many warning labels in products of which many are so ridiculously common sense to begin with? Just at the gym, the workout machine have a warning label that say not to use when broken. I suppose someone used a broken machine and got hurt and end up suing the maker of the machine.
When it happens in reality, it is not funny anymore...
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