Irving Coffman Analysis

In the passage, Coffman presents an argument that the companies whose product causes danger or death should pay for financial settlements. In my opinion, Coffman is wrong because he assumes it’s the companies’ priority to take care of us, clearly it was our decision to start using these products knowing the consequences.

I disagree with Irving Coffman’s idea that it’s the companies’ responsibility to pay for financial settlement for our actions because it is their fault for causing these problems such as food. Food, such as fast food or most known as McDonalds, is one of the most relevant factors causing excessive weight gain, diabetes ,some forms of cancer and even death. McDonalds are known to put chemicals inside their food such as chicken nuggets, big macs and fish sandwiches. Other then chemicals, they carry lots and lots of fat causing older and younger to be effected. As sold around the world for cheap, more people become bigger or die. The ones responsible are the parents and mostly the company of McDonalds. …show more content…
With parents, they always say we kids are always on our phone but think again. Adults are most likely to be in an accident for texting/calling and driving, which is illegal; they still do it causing us teens to be influenced. Everyone who has any social media start to become “self-conscious” of how many likes or followers we have because society started caring about the way others look or what they have. As someone who has a phone and multiple social media accounts, I see the way people are on these accounts and expect to be so perfect and how they get “sucked in”. We are the ones responsible for creating these high expectations and how we become so attached to these

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