Why do people take credit for their successes but blame their failures on everyone and everything else?<\/p>\n
Likewise, why do we believe our own flaws and failings deserve understanding, while other people’s screwups are all obviously the result of evil, irresponsibility, or habitual bad choices and they deserve exactly what they get?<\/p>\n
Why do people continue to believe that Republicans are the party of small government? It’s not like there’s no evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n
Why, when a bank has four drive-up windows, will everybody line up at the one closest to the building?<\/p>\n
Why do people put “for sale” signs in car windows and not mention the price? Don’t they understand that we automatically think, “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it?”<\/p>\n
Why is the guy shouting most piously about morality extra likely to have a bimbo or a rent boy on the side? (Even if he’s moralizing because he feels guilty or fears his own inability to resist temptation, you’d think at some point he’d realize it’s wiser to shut up.)<\/p>\n
Why do people believe the government will protect their privacy?<\/p>\n
Why do companies offer “free demos” of their products — then erect all kinds of barriers to prevent potential customers from actually demoing them? (Complex and nosy registration processes, bad instructions, broken links, and unhelpful customer service.)<\/p>\n
Why will people accept and embrace really bad systems, but demand that advocates of any new systems (e.g. liberty) prove absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt, down to the last jot and tittle, that the new system will 100 percent solve all existing problems and pose no new ones, guaranteed, not ever?<\/p>\n
Why, as George Carlin observed, is everyone who drives slower than you an idiot and everyone who drives faster a maniac?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why do people take credit for their successes but blame their failures on everyone and everything else? Likewise, why do we believe our own flaws and failings deserve understanding, while other people’s screwups are all obviously the result of evil, irresponsibility, or habitual bad choices and they deserve exactly what they get? Why do people continue to believe that Republicans are the party of small government? It’s not like there’s no evidence to the contrary. Why, when a bank has four drive-up windows, will everybody line up at the one closest to the building? Why do people put “for sale”…<\/p>\n