[jazusamo]

Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?: Part II

[MeganC]

Hey, look; it’s not my problem.

[jazusamo]

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

[Mr. K]

"Generations ago, both religious people and socialists were agreed on the proposition that "he who does not work, neither shall he eat.""

Oh we still agree on that, the socialists just won't SAY IT until they are in power.

Then ... does anyone remember the term 'forced labor camps'?

[Buckeye McFrog]

In an outburst of common sense, the Swiss just voted “no” to this.

[Donglalinger]

Dangerous Donald Trump
Thomas Sowell
Posted: Apr 05, 2016
“There are signs that some people are belatedly waking up to the dangers that Donald Trump represents. We can only hope that the voters in Wisconsin are among them — and that voters in New York, California and elsewhere wake up before it is too late.”

[Iron Munro]

Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?

Why would he think that?

[I want the USA back]

No, but the left is doing all it can to eliminate personal responsibility.

[NurdlyPeon]

I use to respect this guy. Now he’s just pablum.

[mbynack]

My little brother posted something on Facebook last week that falls right in line with this. It was a Meme that said if conservatives wouldn’t let people abort their unwanted babies then we would have to be responsible for feeding them. It got me wound up and then my liberal siblings threw in and now no one is talking to each other. They think that I’m immoral for opposing their right to kill unborn babies and not wanting to support deadbeats.

I felt that there was more than two alternatives. How about if people who want to have unprotected sex with people they don’t intend to marry take responsibility for their actions instead of expecting everyone else to do it.

[dware]

Personal Responsibility is absolutely NOT obsolete. The problem is, we’ve given it over to Police, Government & unions. PR is very much alive. We just ignore it.

[RU88]

In real life there are no “participation” trophies.

[theBuckwheat]

Jesus asks if he will find faith on the earth when He returns. One of the core tests of faith is if a person will believe in the Commandments. When they seek to solve a problem in society, can they think of ways to solve it that are in harmony with the Commandments, or must they violate the Commandments to effect their solution?

This is the conflict that socialism seduces people into making: that they want to help people who have genuine needs, and the only solution they can envision is one that justifies violation of the Commands the prohibit coveting and theft. They cannot have faith in charity, and so they must circumvent charity with government coercion and compulsion.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The track record of divorcing personal rewards from personal contributions hardly justifies more of the same, even when it is in a more sophisticated form. Sophisticated social disaster is still disaster — and we already have too much of that.

It's not my place to run the train
The whistle I can't blow.

It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.

It's not my place to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.

But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.

Separating responsibility from authority is a cardinal sin of (mis)management.