Lemmings Syndrome: Unintended Self-Termination

Common Sense Commentary:
Little children may be excused, the first time, for doing dangerous and unknowing things, but not the second time.  If they are allowed, after instruction, to do the same thing a third and fourth time, a pattern is created, and a  precedent is set in the child's brain.  But the child's brand new, bad habit is also the parent's  "unintended" creation of a character flaw in their child, which may one day cost them or someone else their life or lead to all manner of unintended actions or reactions.

By the time a child is a teen-ager, if they have not yet learned what not to do, they are probably on an unintended, intransigent track to a destructive destiny for themselves and others.  An inordinate percentage of auto accidents, unwed pregnancies, and drug addiction involves teen-agers who thought they knew what they were doing. They didn't intend the consequences.

It always amazes me when I see healthy, intelligent men and women, knowing how many sexual diseases there are out there, especially AIDS, engaging in illicit sex and one night stands with people they don't even know, let alone ... are not married to.  Even "knowing" the other person, such behavior is not only a sin but is also ignorant to the extreme. You young people, please remember this;  That person who is willing to have sex with you will, and surely has, had sex with someone else and they with others, and so on, ad infinitum. Such a life-style leads to "unintended" consequences of all kinds, not the least of which are pregnancy, self hate, disease, dishonor, death and divine judgement. There is an unrecognized meaning in the verse, "The wages of sin is death".  When we commit any sin at all, we will not only answer to God for it, at the Great White Throne, for the lost, and the Judgement Seat of Christ, for the saved, but we also "unintentionally" kill ourselves off, by the act, or slowly destroy our health and shorten our lives.  Our Creator built in, not only spiritual laws, but some physical laws that we must learn to live with or suffer the unintended consequences. The spiritual ones are the most important but the physical ones will also bless you or kill you. For instance, the law of gravity, aerodynamics, hygiene, balance, to name a few of the physical ones.  Violate His spiritual laws and suffer both physically and spiritually. Violate the physical ones and break your bones and flesh or rot in your own filth.  So when its your turn to leave this worldly scene, God doesn't have to hit you with a bolt of lightening or give you a heart attack ... though He can.   He already knows exactly how we will contribute to our own demise.  Jump off this cruise ship ... and it's your turn to depart.

Statistics show that Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Prostitution, Promiscuity,  Robbery and  Homosexuality shorten the average lifespan of those involved in such things.
How robbery?  You get shot or put in "Short Life Prison". Unintended Consequences.

Have you noticed that most very old people seem never to recognize how old or incapacitated they are?  I have witnessed hundreds or thousands of people, in their  latter  years, who think they are not dangerous  behind the wheel, or in danger ...  climbing a ladder?  My mother spoke of that "old man" down the street, when she was much older than he.  My Aunt Millie, who lived alone, and could barely stand up or walk at all, at 97, still thought she could drive safely and maintained insurance and license on her old car till I forced the sale of it.  I must have told her a hundred times she was going to fall and seriously hurt herself, the last two years of her life, and she insisted it wouldn't happen... but it did.... and killed her. "Unintended consequences."  My Mother-in-law, also 97, who was in a retirement place until she fell and seriously damaged her eye a few days ago, still wants to get up and down, in bed and out, by herself.  She has fallen several times and will almost surely fall again and again until a final fall ... all unintended, but just as deadly. It's a lot like those lemmings who, when short of food, space or mates, suddenly stampede, unintentionally, off a cliff or into the sea. It's almost as if they and we reach a point in life when we are programed to unintended, self-termination. I'm 81 and can drive, climb ladders, install electric wiring and dig ditches in 99 degree weather ... just as well as I always have ... or better..... 0(; ^) >*    )
           
Unintended consequences are consequences nevertheless; and the initiator of such action will reap what he has unintentionally, but unwisely sown.  "...Be not deceived  ...whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal.6:7.