Entitlement at its finest
Take a moment and go read this.
Done? Good.
The sense of entitlement expressed by Laura Ripley just leaves me flabbergasted. Anyone who knows me knows that I suffer from weight issues. I’ve been overweight (often into the morbidly obese category) my entire life. However, I acknowledge that I’m at fault for it and don’t expect anyone else to take responsibility for my weight or my shedding of it.
This woman, however, believes its the fault of the government that she can’t control her weight. After all, she needs to have her low calorie snacks pre-packaged with the “Weight Weighters” logo so she won’t have to think about it. As someone currently using the Weight Watchers system, it just makes me shake my head that she’s missing the point. So rather than finding cheaper low calorie options, she claiming she has to eat unhealthy things. After all, sometimes she just emotionally doesn’t feel like eating an apple.
Sooner or later, everyone reaches a point where they have to accept they’re the person ultimately responsible for their success or failure, happiness or unhappiness. Obviously this woman hasn’t reached that point yet and wants to put it all on other people. Just because she doesn’t feel like eating an apple, she should be given more money from the government to buy the healthy things she does want to eat?
If that’s all it takes, maybe I should move to the UK and claim disability. Oh, wait, I have more sense of personal responsibility than that. Nevermind.
There’s a reason I don’t live in the UK even though I had a really good job offer there a few years ago.
This is most of it