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An absolutist Facebook post about responsibility

Just last night, I read the following meme posted on Facebook and felt the need to comment on it:

"Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents. your past relationships. your job. the economy. the weather. an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period"

First off, I found it kind of funny that the meme closes its mini-rant with "Period," without adding a period after that very word, yet the author seemed content to place in periods throughout the piece where they would result in fragments.

Secondly, I can understand how some people may get sick and tired of hearing individuals blaming their current situations on others (such as their parents), however, when one makes a claim using absolutes, he or she is almost always wrong.

According to the author of this meme, does this mean that:

Jews could blame themselves for being killed during the Holocaust?

Women are to blame themselves for being the victims of rape?

Children born with a debilitating condition are to blame themselves for it?

I'm sorry, but while it's a noble and seemingly rare concept anymore to take responsibility for one's actions and life, there are far too many factors at play for the before-mentioned meme to be at all accurate.

Well, I must be going. Due to how inspired I was by this meme, I shall now go to a hospital to tell a child who was born in a vegetative state that, "You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period." Sometimes people just don't have a choice.
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