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It's not advertising that gets people to go eat greasy fast food, it's the fact that it is fast, easy, and doesn't require any more work than driving to the destination and placing an order.

It's a trap the whole world is falling into: less work = more leisure time. It looks great, but we pay the consequences. And then we go and blame someone else when it's time to pay said consequences. It's just not right. If I'm walking down the street with my face in a newspaper and I trip over a hose some guy is using to wash down the sidewalk in front of his shop and I split my chin open on the concrete, it's my stupid fault for having my face in the newspaper, not the guy who was washing down the sidewalk. Other folks would argue that the shop owner should have been more considerate of my idiot self who wasn't watching where he was going.

That, in my opinoin, is pure laziness, and the very thing that is wrong with our society. When you @#%$ up, it's your fault, point blank, no excuses.

I'm a project manager where I work, and in addition to the task of overseeing projects my team is assigned, I have to take care of attendence and conduct issues as well. I run into two types of people as others come and go from my team: the type that admits their mistakes, and the type that blames their failure on someone else. Example: Person A comes in late to work, apologizes to me and tells me exactly what happened, and that they'll make sure it doesn't happen again. Person B comes in late to work, doesn't apologize, and tells me the outside influences that kept them from making it to work on time. Perhaps it was one of Person B's spouse, holding them up. Perhaps it was some jerk who cut them off and forced them to have to wait to get on the interstate, costing them 15 minutes. The point is, a person needs to be aware of the fact that they are responsible for their lives, and that no matter what outside influences come to bear on them, they *have* to adapt and find a way around whatever is in their way.

I don't see that happening in a lawsuit blaming some companies who provide a service that a person has a choice of partaking in or not. To me, if you can say no to something it's as simple as that. If you let other things influence you, you are not a victim, you are weak, and natural selection will weed you out, like Bran said.

-Raist