ss_blog_claim=91abee7392f347dc7735a3e80ce75bcf Kristina's Soapbox: Personal Responsibility

Monday, June 22, 2009

Personal Responsibility

"Why'd you let me drink so much?"

"Why'd you let me do that?"

"Why didn't you stop me?"

"Why'd you let me go home with him?"

"How could you let me............?"

"Why didn't you make me.............?"

"Why'd you let me................?"

These are questions I hear all the time. Why have the adults in this country given up their personal responsibility to such an extent that they actually rely on their friends to make all their decisions for them? Why are so many adults dependent on other people to decide how much to drink? Why are so many adults willing to give up control over their actions to other people?

I really do not understand this. I can, sort of, understand the need to blame other people for my actions. However, when you blame other people for your actions, you are giving up the ability to make your own decisions. That I cannot understand.

1 comments:

mssc54 said...

I think personal responsability corelates with the divorce rate. How can you expect children to learn to be responsible when their parents throw away their family because of a "feeling?"

"It's not my fault I came from a broken home."

It's not my fault my mother/father left when I was young."

I think people it all started with the 60s free love and drugs generation.

 
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