How often do we so-called "normal" people have the most awful, horrific things come casually sliding out of our mouths, about other human beings.

Now, I not taking about people speaking about violent criminals, pedophiles or brutal dictators...I'm talking about "normal," everyday cititzens talking about other "ordinary" people, just like them.

I was reading an online paper yesterday. There was an article in it, that mentioned how a woman in the UK had started a fad diet, and after a week on this restrictive diet, she'd begun feeling unwell, and vomiting. Rather than check with her physician, she contacted the "nutritionist" that put her on to this diet, only to be told by this so-called "professional," that vomiting was part of the normal de-tox process. Personally, I believe that if this "nutritionist" was TRULY a professional, she shoud have advised her client to contact her physician, just to be on the safe side--but that's besides the point.

The client listened to the "nutritionist" and kept on the diet. As a result, the client collapsed from an epileptic seizure, incurred as part of the brain damage this "diet" caused her body. The damage also changed this woman's life forever, in effect making it impossible for her to work, or even do simple everyday functions, and effecting her memory..it even changed her whole personality.

Now, on these newspaper websites, you get morons commenting, with things like, "I do these diets all the time, and that never happened to me." It always astounds me how many people out there, in this, the 21st century, still don't grasp the basic concept that human beings are individuals--we're all different...from our life experiences and personalities, to our living situations and health needs and concerns. But always you get these daft people, sniffing and whinging..."Well that would never happen to me..." Yeah, I used to think that too...when I was 15.

But, it was this one woman's comment that really got me upset. I mean, I just wanted to verbally happy-slap this woman--okay, I sort'a just wanted to just slap her.

On reading about how this woman went on a fad diet, and wound up with brain damage and epilepsy, "Bethan" from Cardiff, Wales, said that the client with the epiliepsy, was stupid and "probably deserved it."

What kind of horrible human being wishes epilepsy on someone?

My mother was an epileptic--also from a brain injury. Epilepsy is a HORRIBLE disease...epileptics get treated rather badly sometimes, by society. Petite mal seizure is often mistaken for drunkeness or drug abuse. Petite mal is where the person just sort of steps out of reality for a few minutes...they are awake, but absolutely do not know what they are doing. Mum used to get really happy, and start talking utter nonsense...sometimes she wave her arms around, sometimes she'd start doing something--which used to scare me--without knowing what she was doing...one time she tried to put a tin of tuna fish in the toaster and pop it down. It's NOT funny...it's just bad to have to live with.

Grand mal seizures are even worse. They can KILL you...or make your condition worse. Grand mal seizures are the worst type of seizures there are.

So pardon me if I just want to haul off and slap "Bethan" for being a total loser and an aboslute prig, for saying that someone "deserved" to get brain damage and epilepsy.

You know, you talk all you want about the "yob culture," over there--but these kids are getting it from somewhere, and that somewhere is YOU--YOUR CULTURE. I understand not everyone is like this "Bethan," but...far too many are.

At the heart of it, NO ONE deserves to have a life-altering disease. And saying otherwise? It's just...sick.