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Originally Posted by ebarker
Evil - How do you define evil? - Characterizing A-B as the "bad guy" isn't fair or accurate. What is evil is the culture that celebrates misuse of their products.
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I agree with you, but I believe, when discussing how society celebrates the misuse of innately neutral products like alcohol, it must also be noted that society tends to shift the blame to anything but itself at all cost. Thus the product is often blamed for the stupidity of the user. In this case, alcohol and the alcohol industry get the brunt of the blame for the stupidity shown by people who misuse it.
This line of thought piques my interest. FIRST is, in quite a large part, about changing the culture, correct? Changing the culture's perspective on how "okay" it is to perform acts of stupidity - often fatal stupidity - doesn't, in my view, seem too far off from what FIRST already does.
(**I'm not saying FIRST should change its mission and go after the image of alcohol in our society. I'm merely pointing out what I see as another way in which society needs to change, and how it
(kinda sorta) parallels the mission of FIRST.**)