When did people stop taking responsibility for their actions?

Question

Sadly, it seems people eat too much they blame the fast food chains. If people fall on a wet floor they blame the office building. Depression? Blame the parents. Have we forgotten about our own actions? When I was growing up we all took responsibility for everything. Nowadays it's sue, sue, sue for just about everything. Why?

Answer 1

We don't have the discretion you think, it used to be if you were fat you just enjoyed your food, now its some sort of curse word.
If you fell on a wet floor, someone helped you up, and if needed called an ambulance and the company paid the bill, so it wouldn't need the attorneys. Our own actions are the results of experience and depression has been shown to be the result of chemical imbalances in the brain. You are right, we ALL took responsibility, the corporations did the right thing by the workers,(at least some of the time) Your appearance wasn't the reason to bully and hate someone. If you did something wrong, you rectified it. Now you have to sue, because all the way up and down the line no one takes responsibility and the schmuck on the bottom of the ladder is told to take because no one else will.
So enter the lawyers.

Answer 2

I think that this trend started in the late 1960's and into the 1970's followed by the mass consumption and greed of the 1980's.

I mean in the 1960's people started thinking that things like family, marriage, and religion were things made to be broken. That children could grow up on there own with little intervention. Then in the seventies you have more broken families and more two parent working families. Then in the 1980's people started wanting more, credit card debt rises as the middle class deteriorates.

Now we have a whole generation that feel that they are entitled to everything, that the only person who is important is themselves, and basic relationships which taught give and take and responsibility have broken and are beyond repair.

Examples are everywhere in pop culture.

Answer 3

Some people do and some people don't. I doubt that all people took responsibility for everything they did while you were growing up. That's a pretty broad generalization. Actually, lawmakers have put through quite a bit of legislation to stem the tide of frivolous lawsuits.

Answer 4

If I had to give an exact date, I would have to say May 22, 1964. That's when President Johnson came up with the "Great Society" whose goals were the elimination of poverty and of racial injustice. New major spending programs were supposed to address education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation. This was the beginning of a new, inner-city "entitlement" class who would be taken care of from cradle to grave via affirmative action, welfare, food stamps and free medical care.

Answer 5

Women's Liberation. Flooded the workplace, put more men and women together for extra-marital affairs, people get divorced and then you have twice as many people competing for the same pie, families disintegrate, poorer single moms can't control their kids, turn to the schools for discipline. Also drugs of the 60s create incapable parents of the late 70s, absent fathers, the invention of diagnoses that kids lean on like a crutch (oh, I'm ADD!), that's a start.

People who don't blame others and take responsibility for their relationships get rich and thrive.

Answer 6

Intelligent, mature people have always done so. Within the past half century or so, many more have opted to trick their way out of situations. I was arrested once for drunk driving and was looking for a way to beat it, but my trusted and very wise uncle asked me "well, did you do it?" My answer was "yes." I pleaded guilty and it changed my life. I stopped drinking then and have been better off since.

Answer 7

The simple fact is it's a lot easier to blame others for our mistakes then it is to take a good hard look at ourselves. Don't we realise that energy is better spent improving ourselves instead of trying to pull down others.

Answer 8

Because it is always someone else's fault that things go wrong.

It's your fault I'm stupid. That I use a drill as a hammer and electrocuted myself, the manufacturer is to blame. That the hot coffee spilled and scaulded me, it the vendor to blame for selling me hot coffee. Becuase i smoked my brains out and got lung cancer, it's the cigarette makers to blame

Answer 9

People are always looking for a handout, like the world owes them something (money, lawsuits is a good example) I think it's ridiculous and they should learn how to drive past the mcdonalds and not drive thru it.

Answer 10

Because the Bible predicts that things will continue to get worse until Christ comes back for us. So, actually it just another prophecy being fulfilled.