No. Your Fault

 There is some kind of odd fiction happening these days. It's about people with sad lifestyles that point, not to their own actions or choices, but to those of everyone else they  encounter or in whose environment they happened to be. The bad part, is that the general population is forced to pay for these mistakes. The excuses by the afflicted are as follows: it was my bad background, I was dared to do it, everyone else was doing it, my sick body made me do it. The age-old excuses are rampant but they don't fix problems no matter what or who is imagined to be blamed. Life is about overcoming adversity, not about pointing fingers at others. We make our own choices and some end up as tragic mistakes. It's a sort of banana peel fall as being the fault of the one who dropped the banana skin or the banana itself that is to blame, and not about the one who stepped on it and fell. I have every sympathy for persons who are  in uncomfortable or tragic situations. At the same time, I don't like to pay for mistakes that I haven't made. Our society is one that requiries we  pay for victims and that makes sense to a point. But where does it end?  To avoid having to pay huge amounts for the bad choices some people make, we form bodies that try to educate them on how to avoid bad choices. These are well-known lessons, well presented to everyone, therefore, no one can say, they haven't been warned. Everyone has been duly warned, but they have chosen to set aside the advice. They are free to make their own choices, but we are not freed to stop paying for the mistakes. The tax burden for working people who make the good choices, is becoming overwhelming.  Life is not equal even though we all try hard, very hard, to make it equal.  But we are not all the same, and sometimes some folks have to fight harder to become equal. It's an up-hill, but well-worth-it battle. And if we can, we need to find a reasonable way to help others because in the long run, it helps us all.