Julie KeastCommon Sense Lacking
Everyone seems to want to come out of the woodwork and defend Paris Hilton's irresponsible behaviour which will now confine her to jail for 45 days starting on June 5, these people seem to have forgotten one simple thing: in life you take responsibility for your own actions and it seems to me that Paris and her sympathisers have forgotten this, you may remember that Hilton was caught drink driving late last year and had her licence suspended and she was put on probation meaning she wasn't allowed to drive for a certain period of time, well she jumped in her car and drove while she was still under probation and her licence suspended. Hilton says she didn't know that she wasn't allowed to drive, which is no excuse, if she didn't know she should have read the terms of her probation which police found in the glove box on the night she was caught.
Paris Hilton and her sympathisers lack a lot of common sense when they say that she doesn't deserve to go to jail because she didn't know that she was not allowed to drive, like I said before she could have taken the terms of her probation sheet out of her car glove box and read them before she decided to go for a drive which certainly would have been the responsible and common sense thing to do, instead she chose to violate the terms of the probation and now she will be in jail on June 5, all because she lacked common sense and didn't take responsibility for her actions.
Ms Hilton or any other celebrity who breaks the law should take responsibility for their actions like any other person who doesn't enjoy the same status and it seems to me that her sympathisers have no common sense or an understanding that you must take responsibility for your actions at all in defending Paris's behaviour.
However this seems to be just a reflection on a Western society where everyone seems to have forgotten common sense and taking responsibility for their actions, instead we all seem intent on blaming someone else or something else as a reason for a particular behaviour.
Paris Hilton and her sympathisers lack a lot of common sense when they say that she doesn't deserve to go to jail because she didn't know that she was not allowed to drive, like I said before she could have taken the terms of her probation sheet out of her car glove box and read them before she decided to go for a drive which certainly would have been the responsible and common sense thing to do, instead she chose to violate the terms of the probation and now she will be in jail on June 5, all because she lacked common sense and didn't take responsibility for her actions.
Ms Hilton or any other celebrity who breaks the law should take responsibility for their actions like any other person who doesn't enjoy the same status and it seems to me that her sympathisers have no common sense or an understanding that you must take responsibility for your actions at all in defending Paris's behaviour.
However this seems to be just a reflection on a Western society where everyone seems to have forgotten common sense and taking responsibility for their actions, instead we all seem intent on blaming someone else or something else as a reason for a particular behaviour.
I can see your side of the argument ... and in one sense don't disagree with it ... (as in, the argument that people should use common sense ... but I'm taking that argument as an across the board statement, in order to agree with what you're saying ... but when it comes to traffic violation?
Where is the common sense with the lawmakers who make traffic violations punishable by jail terms? ...
I've been a cop. And worked in traffic division. And I do not consider a person who drives without a licence should go to jail ... I know for a fact that the governments and police departments out here see traffic penalites as a way of raising revenue (an extra tax if you like) ... And that is iniquitous ...
It's time the governments and law-makers applied some common sense ... rich chicks are always going to be off the rails ... sending her to jail for 40 odd days doesn't exhibit common sense to me ... that's just some wanker judge trying to make a name for himself and not applying common sense ...
It will get overturned anyway ... Money speaks in legal circles ... I bet she doesn't even go to jail ...
And I'm not having a go at you okay? ... I agree that common sense is lacking today ... but moreso in govt and legal circles than it is in celebrity circles ...
David ...