“No One Ever Told Me I Couldn’t Do It So…..I Did It”
Written by: Kim Sawyer
Last week, I read an interesting blurb on Page 21 of the July 28, 2008 Sports Illustrated. This blurb, titled “Sign of the Apocalypse,” was about a 32-year-old man who was arrested for disrupting a baseball game in Massachusetts. This man rode a stolen motorbike around the bases because “no one ever told him he couldn’t.” My first response was, ‘For real?!!’ And then I started thinking, what if more people thought this way? For example, (just think about this, using that man’s logic), what if a basketball player who really wanted to dunk, but could never do it, used a ladder to help him/her dunk at a basketball game? People in the stands would either be in shock or just cracking up with laughter, right? But, the player would be absolutely serious because he/she would say they were never told they couldn’t do it. At this point, does this act qualify as a lack of knowledge or is it a lack of common sense? Just for giggle’s sake, can anyone tell me if there a written rule that says a basketball player cannot use a ladder to help them dunk?
This blurb peeked my interest in all sorts of ways and got me thinking — if we all followed this man’s logic, how different would the world be? I mean, just stop for a second and think about this, If you were not informed of what you could NOT do, what WOULD you do? Would you push the limits and do something that you know is wrong, but then use the excuse that you were never told not do it even though you know deep down inside it is wrong? You know what’s kind of scary to me? What if this man’s way of thinking is more common than not? To me, that would mean that common sense as well as a sense of morality is becoming a rarity in today’s society and that is not good. Not good at all.
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Tags: apocalypse, Sports, sports illustrated
July 28th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Most of us are told we cant do it, Thou shall not…. and do it anyway.
common sense and a sense of morality come from our personal and
social environment. If the society does not limit itself and/or set up limits of
behavior then morality will indeed be rare.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Hey Kent. I couldn’t agree more.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am
This is all happening. I saw a cricket match between India and Australia and saw a person entered to ground without any dress… he was doing a streaking there. this is joke for some people
July 30th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Hi Sherin. Don’t you wonder sometimes at the things that some people find funny, and others don’t?