AlaskanAssassin
Well-Known Member
Do people's individual choices have zero impact on their status in the world? I'm not suggesting that anything is 100% in our control, but to suggest that choices made by individuals (such as opening a line of credit that you can't pay back) have no impact on your life is crazy. If a student fails a class because they declined to do any homework or study, they need to take some personal responsibility. Even though teachers, parents, friends might have played a role, it doesn't mean that all personal responsibility is absolved.Yeah, that's what I mean about a sense of entitlement right there. Our tendency to blame poor people for their status in the world.
We have to craft public policy to deal with who humans are, not who we think we want them to be.
I don't think it's the role of government to force choices or options down my throat. This mentality assumes that government is better suited to make choices for me than I am for myself. The government can't pretend to be everyone's mom and dad, making our decisions for us because we are presumed to be too stupid to make smart choices.