Blame!

March 18th, 2010 posted by admin
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Blame!

Think about how dangerous daily life used to be, and how much less dangerous it is now: in Victorian times you could die from a terrible disease just by washing your teeth in dodgy water, or fall from a chimney and that’d be it. But nowadays that threat and many others have been all but obliterated. Now more than ever there are, of course, other dangers which threaten everyone, no matter how careful one is: things like cars, stuff falling out of space, and farming machinery. But on the whole I think you’ll agree that we live in relative safety. (Apart from when we turn on and get the shock that is looking at Simon Cowell’s big and ridiculously square head…)

Which is why the TV show I watched the other day shocked me to the core. It was exploring the no-win-no-fee culture and the vultures who run businesses that capitalize on stupid accidents, turning them in to profit at the expense of the councils of this land. Like a boy who stubbed his toe in the playground playing football: he received 2000 English pounds for his inability to look where he was going! And the mother who fell at a school sports day (unrelated), and decided to sue the school for quite a lot of money (probably to fund her next trip to Botox Manchester). I ask you, what will come next?

Clearly there are real cases where the council are liable (like pot-holes: in England we have some of the deepest in the world), but there are also many others which are just stupid.

And there is a serious affect on the younger generation, too. By showing them that money can be got from every orifice in society, we are condoning them to live a life where every opportunity is seized—no matter of who it affects and the impact it causes.