Scapegoats!
For many years now, it seems that most people have excused almost every lapse from everyday standards of common sense and mature behavior by saying that the individual is a victim of something. Fail a test, blame the teacher. Smoke cigarettes all your life and when the cigarettes give you lung cancer, blame the cigarettes. Someone gets shot and some blame the gun. Someone has poor nutrition and some blame Burger King. Scapegoats! Scapegoats! Individual irresponsibility avoiding responsibility.