Irresponsibility

Posted by Mikko on October 31, 2001 at 12:06:30:

In Reply to: It's like having a loaded gun in the house posted by Diarmuid on October 30, 2001 at 09:24:22:

: Interesting, the US culture where people are most likely to say "I have no sympathy, you are responsible for your own actions" is also the country where people are most irresponsible.

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If 'irresponsibility' means general non-caring about most things, the ex-Soviet areas claim the prize. Not because the people would inherently be bad that way, but historically there it has often been just plain wasted effort to care about anything, because it didn't make any difference.

For example, if something is collectively owned, it belongs to anyone and no one. If you take some, don't take care of some and whatever, who cares? General non-caring attitude towards everything collective and loyality towards those you know, that was the norm there.

Mikko

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• Re: Irresponsibility Diarmuid 08:53:46 11/01/01 (2)
  • Re: Irresponsibility Mikko 13:54:53 11/03/01 (1)
    • Re: Irresponsibility Diarmuid 15:38:11 11/03/01 (0)

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