Citizens shouldn’t use machines
 as an excuse for extreme laziness

 Laziness is a global problem. It knows not gender, age, color nor creed. It seems, however, that American citizens and society foster at least a certain amount of laziness.

The products churned out by both independent and prominent American companies seem to have gotten progressively more lazy in nature. If you’d like an idea of what exactly this entails, glance over this list of just a few of the more recent products on the market: Black & Decker’s automatic cheese grater, peanut butter that is individually wrapped like cheese slices, automatic scissors, and battery-powered nail clippers. How are such products beneficial to society?

Aside from laziness-spreading inventions, it simply seems that generally people don’t want to put forth any more effort in their daily lives than is absolutely necessary.

For instance, many drivers find moving their left hand a couple inches to trigger their turn signals an incredibly strenuous activity. God forbid you should waste all that energy so everyone else on the road knows where your car is going. Turn signals are not simply for when you’re turning a corner, they’re for when you turn your car at all. This includes going in and out of parking places or pulling away from a curb/shoulder on a highway.

Being in college, some of you might have roommates who find housework of any kind painfully laborious. Running the vacuum through the dorm room isn’t going to kill you, and washing a few dishes isn’t as cumbersome as you think.

In the long run, putting forth that extra bit of effort will spare you problems. Besides, you owe it to yourself and others to take responsibility.

Ryan Christner for the Editorial Board