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Originally Posted by tspikes51
My thoughts exactly. My parents are both hirers/firers at their respective workplaces (Mom is a nurse manager, Dad is a controller). My mother told me about this woman who had been fired because of extremely poor attendance in a field where workers are extremely hard to find. The woman filed a lawsuit against the hospital and got her job back. She had the same problem the second time around, and my mom only got to fire her again after going through an extremely long process. So even though this woman has a degree in nursing, she isn't worth shit as a worker, and the law is protecting her because she doesn't show up to work.
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It seems to me that what you're saying is that there is a lack of external pressures on people to take responsibility and accountability for their actions from other people. I can agree there to some degree, but the media is so keen on encouraging us to rid ourselves of responsibility for anything. In fact, the media doesn't even take responsibility for itself. We're even told that we shouldn't solve our problems in direct ways, but have things solve our problems for us. Examples: You're fat, take a pill or try a miracle diet. You're depressed because you aren't living the way you'd like, so take a pill. Of course, there's always taking alcohol to solve our problems. Then there's Viagra, plastic surgery, and the general belief that any problem can fixed by buying something. And if the doesn't work, sue someone or some business.
I don't know how "pussification" fits into this, but I'll certainly say that we're far from the ubermensch that Nietzche talks about. I think the real issue is more that many lack internal motivation to take responsibility and accountability for their actions. This isn't a political issue, because all kinds of people from both sides suffer from it including the president. It is a problem, and strangely I think it is rooted in a deep psychological problem with American insecurity that is widely capitalized on with marketing and advertising. We are a long way from being responsible, and it seems that social pressure continues towards removing responsibility. I'm not sure what can be done, some sort of social intellectual revolution seems to be in order.