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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

What's happening to society?


In last week's TIME there was this quote:

"I believe that the reason I smoke and drink every day and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years" - sTimothy Dumouchel of West Bend, Wisconsin, USA, threathening to sue a TV Cable Company after they forgot to turn off his subscription when he cancelled 4 years ago.

Is he fuckin mental or what? He cannot be serious!

I still don't understand what's wrong with the Americans when it comes to suing. They'll sue anything, anybody for the stupidest reasons ever. Well in this case, this bloke needs to sue his own free will. I mean, it was his own free will that got his ass stuck on the couch, flicking the remote control. It was his free will who said "smoke a fag", not the TV. It was his free will who said "grab another beer", not his TV. It was his wife's free will who said "another doughnut won't hurt". What's going to happen to society if they don't even believe that they have free will anymore and feel the need to sue somebody else for the lack of control over their free will.

Our free will is what sets us apart from animals. Animals live based on instinct, humans based on free will. The free will is helped by a brain (although I doubt this person had a brain, it was probably eaten by his telly) to make decisions. So it is really scary when a person says that he doesn't have a free will anymore.

And this is not the first case. Somebody sued Philip Morris because she got lung cancer from 25 years of smoking Marlboro's. Another guy tried to sue McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC because he is obese from eating all that junk food. What next? Somebody suing Budweiser because he ended up shagging an ugly bird? Somebody suing Durex because it made him shag a lot? Somebody suing the transportation department because it made him lazy? Somebody suing martians because they abducted him and gave him an anal probe? Get real. Get a life. No, choose your life. Use your free will.

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