Enough is Enough!

L&G-

Oh and these people will run a racket to make you feel sorry for them - they reason that they need to act that way to protect themselves. Do you buy into that? Do you really think that people who get easily offended and who are all the time provoking really deserve sympathy? Do you think that adults who act like children really deserve to swamp you with their troubles and drain all your resources (time, energy, money and the like)? Personally, if people make dumb decisions and have bad attitudes, I am sure they will remain in the same circumstances (unless they can fool others into doing the work for them). When people complain about how their circumstances don't change and when they complain about the same crises over and over and over again they are simply not learning from their mistakes. Do you think we should keep people from developing character by protecting them from the consequences of their own actions?

I think that's a great disservice; people need character to carry on in the face of adversity; they don't need a way out every time the going gets tough. We cannot hold all of these walking wounded - these people are not our burden! The next time someone acts like a spoiled rotten child and demands that you do something about their problem or the way they feel, stand up and say, "Well heck [Ma'am or Mister], you've never grown up. That's your problem!"