Do you think there is a serious lack of personal responsibility in our society?
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Goodness Yes - and it is sooo sad - I'm back on the gtr bench - I can't believe it
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Yes. I'd elaborate, but that must be someone else's job... EDIT- I'm going to elaborate anyway. People need to take accountability for their own actions and realise that if they don't do some things, no one is going to. The problem is that society as it is set up now does not encourage personal responsibility, it encourages the mentality of buracracy, the mindset of "I'll just do what I was told is my job, and rest assured that someone else has the job of doing everything else" After all, when you give people personal responsibility, you also have to give them personal freedoms to go with it, and let's face it, modern society just isn't very big on personl freedom.
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Yes and i think if parents held their children accountably at an early age they wouldn't grow up to believe it must be someone elses fault.
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Huge! Giant! Enormous! Large! Expansive! Really Really Big! lack of personal responsibility.
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Yes - and I think a lot of this comes from children who were not planned for or wanted, and they are raised in a way that simply keeps them out of their parents' hair instead of as a person that needs to be taught life's values. Then, they raise their unplaned and unwanted kids the same way, and it perpetuates itself.
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Yes! I think it's about time George Bush & John Howard leave the president/prime minister seat!
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ummm, duh? People want freedom without responsibility. Someone gets the butt end of things and its usually the innocents.
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I think there is a serious shirking of personal responsibility when people are young but after they pass the age of 18 or so they find out that boat won't float anymore. Other people, judges, courts, lawyers, and police inform them quick enough that they are responsible for the results of their actions. And as far as lack of financial responsibility they quickly find out what happens when they don't pay the rent, car payment etc. Of course you have those who are just deadbeats anyway but sooner or later they run out of friends or family who will put up with them and end up relegated to their proper place in society which is the bottom.
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Yes absolutely. Generally nowadays most, or many people are selfish and do things without consideration for others. Even though a child is not thought responsibility at home, surely one would think they might have some common sense and can distinguish the differences between right and wrong. Laziness, thoughtlessness, selfishness, common decency and simple lack of common sense are contributing factors for this irresponsible society we are turning into.
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Yes- if people put the same effort into being responsible that they put into finger pointing . . . wouldn't the world be a different place? Imagine a life without the blame game!
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