I just saw some TV commercial that melded shots from this new Spider-Man movie The Amazing Spider-Man with shots of someone playing basketball (I think it was LeBron James, and it was an ad for the Olympics maybe?), and at the end, the announcer said: "Failure is not an option!" Well, especially if this ad is referring to basketball in the Olympics, this statement is a clear violation of our Constitutional rights as Americans, and I think it's inexcusable! America is supposed to be "the land of the free", is it not? So, then, mandating success is simply another curtailing of our personal liberties, right? And as such, it's unconscionable! (Spider-Man can do as he likes, but I'll fight for my right to fail!)
Look, the government is infringing upon our rights little by little each and every day. We're being spied on, subjected to spontaneous search and seizure, felt up by government TSA agents at the airport (which can be an enjoyable thing if that's what you're into, I suppose), all in the name of security. They're doing a pretty good job with the keeping us safe from terrorism thing, actually, so this stuff is understandable, and so long as it's not abused, it's acceptable. But forcing people to win is just more government bullying, and it must stop! To lose and fail is the right of each and every American citizen, and trying to say or mandate otherwise is a violation of everything this country stands for: freedom and liberty! (Well, okay, not everything this country stands for: just the freedom and liberty part.)
Removing failure as an option simply subjects us to the brutalities of tyranny! We might as well be living under the oppressiveness of fascism if our rights can be so easily stripped from us, especially by TV ad announcers! (Maybe the government should look into these advertising voiceover people, and investigate them for bullying and violations of our Constitutional rights!) I demand my right to fail, and just to make an example of this issue, and prove that we as Americans have the right to fail, maybe the American Olympic basketball team should lose on-purpose just to make this point! (Or at least, if they end up losing any games, I suggest they use this as an excuse, and say they lost on-purpose.)
This is not the same ad, but this is similar to the one I just saw (but here the announcer does not say: "Failure in not an option!", and here Spider-Man is animated, rather than being the live-action CGI "digital double" from the new movie The Amazing Spider-Man, like he is in the ad I'm referring to in this post):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3K6SLJcSKQ
