True enough.
But predictably we have seen on this thread blame lobbed at everyone from the guy who gave her a ride home to the sleeping neighbors.
There isn’t enough blame to go around. She was an adult.
Even on this supposed conservative site, when I pointed out that she is old enough to be halfway through a military tour that brought derision from the eternal childhood contingent.
How bad do they want never to face the concept of personal responsibility?
Bad enough to attack those of us who point out the young woman created her own predicament whilst nary a word to those pouring coals on the neighbors and the guy who did try to help her.
Look, I was in Infantry AIT at that age. But that’s not for everyone thank God. I don’t hold the Army up as something to emulate. We were trained to perpetrate horrors on uniformed strangers.
Additionally I wouldn’t say that Army culture is a good healthy culture for the rest of people going through life. In fact, I joined the Army so people could act like big old babies at home if they wanted to.
But empathy, sympathy, is a good thing as long as your job doesn’t include killing and being killed by others. Lets face it the Army will as soon zip you up in a body bag as pin a medal on you, or both. It’s not an empathetic organization, and it cannot be that.
But I can’t turn a cold eye on human failure. People do stupid things all the time, to themselves and to others. The whole earth groans with afflictions. I can feel sad and that doesn’t make me less of a man. In fact feeling is good. It lets a person know they are alive.
Being cold and logical all the time has it’s place, but not in this instance. I will save my cold rationality for when the SHTF. I still have it. I just don’t want to use it until I have to.