HJ: Death Of Personal Responsibility

Personal responsibility. I learned those two words as a child and continue to live by them on a daily basis. They are also two words that seem to be quickly escaping the vocabulary of most Americans. It’s not a hard concept to understand. If you do something wrong you fess up and admit it and then do everything in your power to make things right again. It’s the way I handle things in both life and work, and I really wish others in my generation felt the same way. But how can they? We are all products of the 1990s and the “self esteem” movement brought about by the leading child experts of the decade. To be quite frank, that mentality has come back to bite us in the ass/ Henry Johnston , Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here .

Question: Do people you know shirk personal responsiblity?