tanhaDebt or Leadership
February 11th 2007 23:22
Have you ever thought the better of standing in for some else’s debt? Some parents have been caught by this trap, standing in for children who want to buy cars etc.. Many have been caught “investing” money with developers and losing a life’s savings. I lost a small amount recently when someone who contracted me to write a biography for their client disappeared with the client’s money There were other authors involved also. We invested hours of work in a company we weren’t sure of.
I know a mother whose daughter plagues her for money constantly to pay drug debts, and gets away with it. :You hear constantly of fathers paying bail for sons who have contravened the law and continue to do it because they can always get father to pay. In some cases they can pay the best lawyers to appeal against sentences and get the sons off the proper consequence of their crimes. Guess what! They have to repeat it over and over!
Psalm 11:15 He who is surety for a stranger will suffer, but one who hates being surety is secure.
. “Oh”, you say, ‘”‘Sons are not strangers”. They are no friend of the family when they cost their parents this sort of money. They would learn faster if they had to take their own consequences.
Those who refuse to fall for these tricks are wise indeed
There are emotional ways to back up the wrong behaviours, too. Have you ever backed up a friend’s wrong behaviour by saying something like “It’s his choice” when you know perfectly well that behaviour will have terrible consequences. A lot of the talk of rights does this – rights to free speech including public foul language and incitement to anarchy (disrespect for people in authority), rights to the control of one’s own body produces 100,000 Australian abortions each year with the consequent depressive psychoses, cancers and/or pregnancy problems, and the insidious right to reject parental disciplines, resulting in unwanted pregnancies and all the associated problems. It’s better to point out the consequences and stand up for what is right.
What we need is people who are willing to stand up for the right, be different if that’s what it takes, not be so dependent on the so-called favour of peers that they can’t have an opinion of their own, leaders strong enough to identify their own path and not have it identified by whoever they are associating with at the time.
Lead your country. Don’t just follow the lowest common denominator!
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