Show ro Well Me Walter Yates Opinion Editor If there ever was a time of people people peo peo- pie being irresponsible for their own actions our society would fit It is impossible to turn on the news and not hear of how someone is trying to make an excuse for his or her behavior Ve We often here of such people being in court Take for example the brothers who killed their parents in cold blood They have admitted they killed their parents but are trying to excuse it The one broth broth- er says that his father sexually abused him when he was young He said he was scared and that's why they killed their mom and dad thi this is no excuse for two legal adults to murder their parents if he was really afraid of his parents he would hive have move moved away from home The brothers may be bean bean bean an extreme example of not owning up to are actions but everyone does it sometimes We Ve are taught to tomake tomake tomake make excuses from a young age Little kids learn that if they do something bad and admit it to their parents they will be in trouble the result of this is they learn to lie or excuse what they did Everyone except politicians has an excuse Lets say you got a speeding ticket or were late to work Would you give the police officer or your boss an excuse or just admit you had made a mistake More than likely you would tell them an excuse in hopes of getting out of the consequences Everyone except politicians has hasan hasan hasan an excuse Politicians have realized realized realized real real- that America wants someone to to own up They will admit to things like I acted inappropriate to women in my office That's nice p that they can adm admit it they were wrong but they think that's all they t should do They dont don't believe that they need to pay a price for their actions I wish the senator who admitted to inappropriate inappropriate inappropriate actions toward women would come out and say I did harass my female staff members and andI I was wrong but I think think that I should never be punished because I 1 admitted I was wrong One of the hardest things in life Hf is to own up to and pay for what we did wrong I find people who do this respectable But how many A respectable people are there S |