Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:51:53 +0100
From: Air-Iksati <erikb-AT-agoranet.be>
Subject: re: Personal Responsibility


At 15:18 -0500 31-10-1998, Unka Bart wrote:
...>
>You are absolutely correct that every thing we do is done for reasons.
>Not, by the bye, that this is in any way connected with *responsibility*...
>
>If you punch me in the nose, it would probably be for the *reason* that my
>reply, quite understandably pissed you off.  You would still, nonetheless,
>be entirely responsible for your actions.  Not me, not society, not Goat or
>Carp; not even the pathetic pissant known as ANuS.  Just you.
>

Having missed the start of this thread i still incline on not putting
things that strictly. Perosnal responsability and societal responsability
are not mutually exclusive (words can get us anywhere, anyway).

Raising children i noticed some weird things (well not weird, but a little
frightening) : my oldest son 4 years and a half does often act in a
remarkable similar manner as i do/did.

Now if i i can have such an influence on him, why couldn't society.

Ofcourse every act he does is still his own responsability, but a person is
not an island, and influences do happen.

This is not about right or wrong, guilt or freedom...

Roundup.
I tend to go for a persons is not always responsible for WHY she did
something, but she is for WHAT she does.

Erik