What happened to personal responsibility?

Overlawyered.com — Personal responsibility links

If you ever find yourself wondering if things are worse than you thought, this site will erase all doubt. The linked page cites many instances of people blaming, variously, soft drink distributors (whose machines fall on people without warning as they try to steal from them), sporting goods makers (hey, if the batter hits me with a my own pitched ball, it must be the bat maker’s fault), tire companies (we, like, smoked a whole bag of dope, but that wasn’t why the van rolled over: musta been the tires, dude) . . . . .

You get the idea. Read it and weep.

This takes the idea of “ubi jus ibi remedium –where there is a right there is a remedy” to new lows . . . .