Avoiding Evil

In New York two teenagers with rather large midsections are suing McDonald’s for making them fat. WHAT IN TARNATION? Apparently on behalf of the teens their parents are filing a class-action lawsuit against McDonalds claiming that the unhealthy meals have made them obese, which caused them to develop health problems. Give me a break!…”break me off a piece of that kit Kat bar”…in fact give me the whole box and then I can sue Nestle because I am 400 pounds overweight!

While we are looking at “interesting” logic, lets look at the statements of a George Washington University law professor named John Banzhaf. He says that the children are unable to resist the chain’s playgrounds and Happy Meals because of the toys. “Children clearly are not capable of making health-related decisions.” True, that is why they have parents. People will not take any responsibility for their own actions and it makes me angry. According to Mr. Wright, “The teens should be suing their parents, not McDonalds.” How true is that! The parents are the ones giving these kids money and taking them to McDonalds, shouldn’t it be their job to take care of their own child and teach them how to eat instead of allowing them to shovel McDonald’s hamburgers down their throat. You can blame any fast food place in the nation all you want, but when it comes down to it, if your child is eating 7 happy meals a day, its your own fault! It’s time people realize that you reap what you sow and then take responsibility for their own actions. We are not in kindergarten anymore people. If you eat at McDonalds 5 times a week then you are going to be unhealthy, its not their fault, it’s yours.

Another man named Caesar Barber is also suing after he developed diabetes from eating at McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, and Wendy’s five times a week. This law suit is still bouncing around in the court system but the teenager’s attorney Samuel Hirsch is focusing on the suit involving children, “since children can’t be expected to be personally responsible for their health.” Once again we have a “DUH” moment. In fact let’s have a short moment of silence to meditate on the stupidity of this whole lawsuit… The children can’t be responsible for their own health, neither can McDonalds, Wal-Mart, the Easter bunny, or any other person we want to blame except for the parents! If your child is unhealthy and fat due to an excessive amount of McDonalds food then it sounds like a classic case of faulty parenting and lets punish the real criminals.

“The notion that there’s no parental authority over these children is ridiculous,’ says Mike Burita, a spokesman for the Center for Consumer Freedom, and I say AMEN to that! Burita also asked the question, “Do little kids steal their parent’s car keys and drive themselves to McDonald’s?” The thought is preposterous. These two overweight teenagers have been allowed to stuff their face with unhealthy fast-food several times a week for years and now they want to get paid for it because they are having health problems. Yes, lets reward people for their own inability to control their selfish desires. There are no consequences due to poor decisions on both the parents and the teenagers parts.  If they win the lawsuit they will be rewarded for their poor decisions.

I am not complaining about the fact that these people are obese, I don’t necessarily discriminate against fat people.  I have a large amount of blub hanging over my belt buckle as well, but I am not out blaming everyone else for my own actions. We can chalk this one up to another classic case of the spread of our humanistic, relativistic, selfish tendencies. It is about time parents started to act like parents and raise their kids right instead of raising up a nation of spoiled, lazy, obese children with no desire to work on their own and no desire to take credit for their own actions.