Society generally assigns responsibility for decision making in stages. From birth through 16 your parents make decisions for you; from 17-21 (18 if you are female) you are granted some additional responsibilities in decision making that do not require parental consent; after 21 you are totally responsible for all your decisions be they wise or be they unwise. However, is there ever a time when because of advanced age and diminished capacity you are not responsible for your decisions? Are are there circumstances under which such responsibility is reduced, diminished or abrogated?
Before you answer consider this: The fastest growing crime in America is defrauding the elderly. Malicious low-life's take advantage of the elderly to access their savings and lines of credit through a whole range of schemes that include phony sweepstakes & lotto's, charities, and a wide-range of other schemes. When it is all said and done these people are out their money and have virtually no recourse to recover their losses.
Beyond the despicable human vermin who perpetrate these scams there is the seeming lack of concern on the part of financial institutions (I suspect that Western Union is used more than any other to transfer these monies) and/or law enforcement. I cannot believe that they cannot find and prosecute these vermin. To my way of thinking they are at least equally as despicable as pedophiles and deserve to be treated no better.
I don't want to limit the right of the elderly to handle their own affairs. I do think that something needs to be done to rid the earth of these human (I would call them animals but I don't want to denigrate the animals) parasites. What do you think?
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