Posted by cultivated on January 23, 2003 at 08:21:40:
I'm not saying because some one is an idiot that it is ok to take advantage of them, I'm saying you have to have some culpability. If paying upwards of 20K for martial arts training doesn't raise a red flag then whatin the world will. Victim status can only go so far. If your in an alley at 2 in the morning and you get mugged you are partly to blame, if a mugger wakes you up with a gun and you left the door unlocked you are partly to blame, if you go into a MA school without researching others as to the authenticity of one school or another and just fork over all kinds of money without finding out the deal, it may not be be your fault you were taken advantage of but, buy nobody forced them through the door in the first place. Show some responsibilty for your actions for once. Didn't anyone ever tell if something is to good to be true it probably is? Wake up and use your head. If that Lay's husband was too stupid to see what was going on and happening to his marriage he wasn't worth it to begin with and most likely it would have been something else that caused a rift in the Marriage.