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Yes, of course, guys. But it's just so much dreaming. It takes a lot to convince me that anyone ever takes personal responsibility for anything. To assume so can't just be naivete because you guys are not naive. But I think what you're doing is substituting idealism for practical possibility.
IMO, personal responsibility is either enforced or it doesn't exist in any statistically significant way. The same goes for social responsibility - except it's even more rare than personal responsibility. And you know I don't accept people proclaiming their personal and social responsibilities from the rooftop. Self-serving rhetoric isn't the same as the way things actually are.
The problem is one of proper perspective on idealism and its place in the scheme of things. Wishful thinking doesn't make things so. What makes things so is negogtiating from positions of power in the real world. As far as humans are concerned, power and fear trump everything else - especially idealistic hopes and dreams. We either enforce things that are desirable for optimal societal performance or they do not occur - except among a tiny minority of personally and socially responsible individuals. You can't forge a nation or a government from that group.
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