Posted on 11/18/2001 1:04:52 PM PST by Jean S
YIKES!
Well, it's obvious that we're all in it together.
You got a mouse in your pocket or what? We are not all in it together, the simple fact that every human exists on the same spinning globe doesn't mean that we are all "in it" together.
We all need to take responsibility for it.
Why? I worked my @$$ of in high school to get into a good college. Since the age of 16 when I wasn't in school or sleeping, most of the time I was at work - earning what I needed to accomplish some of the things I wanted to do.
I got into college, worked my way through it, earned 2 B.S. degrees in 5 years, and a Masters in 2. Who took responsibility for that - nobody but me (glad my parents brought me up right though).
Left my college job on Friday, started at my first "real" job on the following Tuesday - didn't need time off to find myself, just get to work, put in the effort, and see what I could make of myself.
Here is a quick clue, if everyone started becoming responsible for their own actions, the world would be a whole lot better place. Don't babble about how I or anyone else is responsible for someone elses lot in life. We are all responsible for our own.
We are all, in some way shape or form, to blame.
For what working hard and earning our living? How does getting out of bed to go to work or school impart blame for for something? Just because I have managed to feed my family and buy some things doesn't mean I am to blame for someone not being able to, being kept from doing so, or more likely not choosing to do so.
Would you say that the USA had too lax an imigration policy?
Yes. I don't want to spend my hard earned dollars to feed someone unwilling to work for themselves. Putting in the effort, but can't make the ends meet, have my tax money, but you better be willing to put in the effort, allow oversight of your progress, and do what it takes to make a useful citizen of yourself.
Are you a voter?
Yes.
When's the last time you faxed or emailed your Congressional representative to let your opinions be known and counted?
About a month ago.
If indeed you have always been consciencious of your responsibilities in these democratic institutions, but then did you push everyone you know to also take part? Bucko?
Still looks like you are missing the real definition of responsibility, whether or not other people carry out the same types of actions as I do, in no way imparts a lack of duty on my part. They are free to make thir own decisions, and while I will let my opinions be known, that doesn't mean they have to listen or agree.
That is all anyone can ask of his neighbors.
You are not directly and solely responsible for the plight of the Arabs. Of course I am not, other than maybe the fact that my great grandfather came from the middle east to make a living in the United States, and since then, each of his decendants have tried to continue making a good living.
I never said that.
The only type of responsibility that actually exists is personal responsibility. The idea of collective actions is nothing more than individual responsibilities acting to meet the same goal. Therefore, saying that the world is responsible for the plight of a given people auomatically implies sole and direct responsibility to each individual, though they may have no sole or direct relationship to the item under discussion.
All I meant was that the whole human race is responsible for its direction. It's a philosophical point.
I can no more determine whether another person will take on their own personal responsibilities than the secretary general of the united nations. I can be responsible for my actions, but a failure of someone else within the human race to live up to their responsibilities in no way confers a failure on my part in the direction of the human race. Philisophically, it doesn't get much more simple than that.
Even if there's nothing you can do, and you've done everything right, you are responsible. Coz if we're not, then who is?
The person affected, or affecting is always responsible. Unfortunately, in today's world, too many people think that spreading responsiblitiy around will bring about some kind of solution when in fact only acceptancce of personal responsibility will.
Take for example Saddam. When the nations political will to fight on dwindled, the war had to be over. Whose fault is that? Yours? Mine? You tell me.
If our goals were accomplished, we fulfilled our respnsibilities, whether or not that accomplished everyone elses goals is their responsibility to determine and therefore take action to implement. For the record, my support went to taking Bahgdad, ending a regime that has brutally killed civillians and dissentors, and stringing Hussein from a light pole for everyone to see.
Time for me to sleep, good night.
It also means that the leaders are subject to the same laws as the rest of the people.
Which counts the U.S. out, I guess, since X42 got his pass.
Shalom.
Jesus cares, and so does His church. And it continues to try to help, even when it can be persecuted for doing so.
Unfortunately, I'd agree with you that most of the followers of Jesus don't care as much as He does.
Shalom.
I'm too busy to fully reply to your atacking post, as I have to get back to work. I work for as living, unlike those Arabs, that just pose with their machine guns, and "people watch" all day long. And this has been going on for decades!
I'm too busy to fully reply to your atacking post, as I have to get back to work. I work for as living, unlike those Arabs, that just pose with their machine guns, and "people watch" all day long. And this has been going on for decades!
'Arab World Poverty -- Whose Fault?'
One more time,..............................The Answer is: as logic points directly to...........The al-Qaida and ALL its 'families'.
I sort of agree the Philosophy a society chooses will determine it's relative gains or losses.
"the absence of capitalism and free trade, and the lack of individual rights and the rule of law."
The only solution to poverty and dictatorships is freedom as defined by the above.The American revolution was the embracing of Individual freedom and if other nations did the same we would see the unleashing of great creativity and prosperity.
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