CNN has a headline right now that says “Violence Mars Black Friday.” I would contend that “black Friday” is not a thing of beauty that can be marred, like my mother’s Queen Anne dining table. It’s a horrible day, when people engage in the worst sort of consumerism and psychotic bargain hunting, which the retailers have chosen to exploit, in recent years.
I hate the big retailers as much as the next guy. They engage in the worst tactics to get people into stores. They advertise huge sales on big ticket items to lure people in with the promise of getting one of a handful of the big sale items, whipping people into a frenzy. And thousands are taken in, and consumed by it. That being said, for some things there are no excuses. If saving a few hundred dollars is important enough to you that you’ll assault someone, you are EVIL.
