Personal responsibility is a great goal, but who do we hold responsible for the lack of personal responsibility? The players, the families, the schools, the government? All have failed the players!
I remember Dexter Manley’s testimony about how all the schools looked the other way, even though he was illiterate.
You hold the person who makes the choice responsible.
Consequences are by far the best teacher and the best builder of good character.
I think they call that “tough love” . We have way too little of that and way to much of what I call “pathological compassion”.
That’s the type of compassion that ends up making things worse for both the giver and the receiver... as well as society as a whole.
We are living it.