Consequentially

One of the guys I work with was involved in a lawsuit recently regarding a shooting he was involved in. Apparently, if you happen to get shot by the cops, the thing for you (or your family, if you don't survive) to do is to sue. Many people don't seem to understand that there are consequences to your actions. It is simply easier to blame someone else than to admit they, or their dearly departed, did something really stupid.

If, for instance, you place your body under a moving steamroller, you are going to get crushed. If you try to hurt someone when a cop is around, you are going to get hurt. Or if you try to kill the cop. It is simply the consequences of what you have done.

It really does make a good picture for our lives. When something goes wrong because of something stupid we have done, do we automatically look for someone else to blame. Or do we accept it, try to do better and move on?

Fortunately for my colleague, the jury realized this too. After deliberating for all of 20 minutes, they decided the police were not responsible, but merely doing their jobs and the shootee should not have been doing what he was doing. Maybe we do still have a sense that there are consequences for the things we do.