It used to be that we, as a society, valued the strength of character required to live up to individual responsibility. We used to collectively frown upon and thereby stigmatize those who refused to accept responsibility. In recent years, we are (supposedly) becoming more "enlightened". We have become "sensitive" to the fact people suffer when they are stigmatized, justly or unjustly. All suffering is bad, therefore it is bad to stigmatize people. Instead, we now want to "value" people. Everyone has value. Now people aren't bad, they're just "different". There is no longer any "right" or "wrong". Saying someone is "wrong" makes them "bad". And, since there are no "bad" people, how can there be any "right" or "wrong"?! This nonsense reached a pinnacle when our president avoided taking responsibility for his philandering with another woman by claiming, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is', is."
How did all of this happen? I'm not entirely sure, but crafty, hairsplitting lawyers haven't helped.
Sheesh.
2007-06-11 11:51:07
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answered by Anonymous
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It is alive and well in those of us who understand that we have a moral responsibility to help those in need. That help does not need to be in the form of a government program, but that is a legitimate avenue.
What is the alternative? In the 1950's there were starving children in this country. There were senior citizens turned away at the hospital door because they could not pay for life-saving simple treatment. Do the severely disabled have a 'personal responsibility' to lie in their own waste each day because they can not provide for themselves?
The welfare system, such as it is, is not in danger of ruining the country by making everyone lazy. It is there to help people in need and that is what it does. Ask healthy, gainfully employed people if they would rather be on welfare? The answer will be no. Ask people on welfare if they want to stay on welfare for the rest of their lives? A few will be content with that, but not many. You can't live off minimum wage either, but it pays more than welfare.
2007-06-09 05:50:10
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answered by jehen 7
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It's not my responsibility to know what happened to it. Ask someone else. ; )
The government has been taking responsibility for all of us. They've done such a wonderful job of it. They need more and more of our hard earned money to pay for people who can't or won't work. Those who can't, NEED the help. Those who won't should not get the help. Sometimes it's difficult to tell if someone can't or just won't. That's when you get abuse.
What we really need is to scrap the income tax, repeal the 16th amendment, pass the Fair Tax bill(H.R.25/S.1025) and bring American jobs back home, put the American people back to work, and reduce the number of people who get public aid. The Fair Tax is good for big business, small business, good for consumers, for rich, poor, and middle class. Check it out.
2007-06-08 07:36:15
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answered by srdongato2 5
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Unfortunately, if people are comfortable, they don't care who's taking care of them...
I agree with you; you get out of life what you put into it.
... and about being amazed by the folks who believe that welfare's a 'forever' thing. Good grief.
Be accountable, and teach your children to do the same. I firmly believe that it all begins at home.
2007-06-09 20:48:31
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answered by socalgramma 1
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of direction it incredibly is substantial for human beings to be in charge for his or her lives and settle for the outcomes for his or her judgements. No conscientious person would desire to argue with this ethic. the difficulty this approach grants whilst it incredibly is utilized to our united states of america's present day financial and well being crises is that it thoroughly ignores the unfair playing field pursued and controlled by making use of massive organization - no count number if it incredibly is medical insurance companies, Banking, Wall highway, super Oil, and so on. it incredibly is authentic that it is the main wealthy united states of america, although, the money and potential are going to an elite style of communities that are continuously imposing increasing annoying circumstances on the common American. we've become much less and much less and paying further and added. no possible credibly deny that there is an inequity in affluence in this united states of america and worldwide and it incredibly is *no longer* all simply by lazy, entitled, indifferent do-nothings waiting for a handout. what is going to alter it is extra civic participation in community and national politics besides as a extra knowledgeable and discovered inhabitants. in basic terms then, whilst our elected officers are held in charge for his or her unsavory relationships with lobbyists and different organization hobbies can we start to be certain those inequities start to shrink.
2016-10-07 03:06:23
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answered by ? 4
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I blame psychology, for many years now we have been taught that no matter what, the problems you are having was caused by your parents(usually mother), or the government, or anyone or thing other than yourself. No education? blame poor schools, not the person who refused to do the work! So now no one thinks they are responsible.
2007-06-09 21:05:09
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answered by sbyldy 5
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Individual responsibility? That was gone when the did away with teachers being aloud to discipline kids in school, when parents decided to be their kids friends, & when we decided to stop paying attention to anything & everything that did not directly & or immediately effect us, in our own little world. {mainly anything outside our neighborhood or home}. It's sad but true.
2007-06-08 15:33:59
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answered by Fab 4
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at the end of the day,if the human soul was put in a situation
where there was someone in need trapped under a fallen tree, would the soul help said person?
maybe if it suited the soul, but what if there was no consequence, would the soul
rape the person in need? maybe it would, so pig eat dog, jimny boop.
2014-07-16 11:04:29
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answered by Anonymous
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The end result of Lyndon Johnsons "Great Society". Too many government programs, why should anyone do anything for themselves. Makes me sick.
VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS
2007-06-08 08:11:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Disappeared with the New Deal and the Great Society.
2007-06-08 07:19:04
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answered by RP McMurphy 4
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