Where does personal responsibility play a role in the choices we make?Can we cover all our problems and activities to the guise of disease and or addiction? When personal choice leads to problems are we not responsible for the first steps taken? If these choices leads us to the so called diseases, addictions, obesity, and sometimes criminal behavior , can we then shirk off our part by calling it a disease or disorder? How can we implicate education for the consequences of bad choices to fall on our shoulders, instead of the perceived responsibility of others, society or disease. Do you feel that covering for ourselves or our children's behavior by excusing everything to addictions or disease has had a detrimental effect on society in general?
FIREMONKEY
No, it is never fair. It really have a detrimental effect on society in general. It is each and every ones personal responsibility to take care of the choices we make whether good or bad. problems are never solved by adding more problems such as addictions and it is never a cover up but leads to more troubles. Before things get worse, it is our personal determination and responsibility to curb it. it is just being sensible and responsible enough citizens. I just wish these people think about it and do something.
interrogatory
It's a rationalization and avoidance. Nobody wants to say they're obese because they can't stop eating junk food all day and exercise is walking to the fridge. SO they call it a disease. Or they blame McDonald's, like the company breaks into peoples homes and stuffs food down their maw at gunpoint. It's an offshoot of the weasel words of political correctness. Don't hurt somebody's feelings. THere aren't any losers in kids sports anymore. It's not their fault they drink to much, or smoke pot, or look at child porn at work. The more people can make it out of their control, the more they can do it and we have to look the other way.
Kisha
There are a minimal number of real diseases out there that are beyond the control of the victim. Alcoholism, smoking, and drug abuse come from bad personal choices, not from some uncontrollable virus. AIDS comes from poor sexual and drug habits (excepting blood transfusions and victims of straying spouses). Society has stretched very far to find genetic tendancies toward this addiction or that behavior, but in the end, each of us is in control of our actions.
Once these problems have been acquired, we want a pain free pill to solve them, and are willing to risk the health of the other parts of our lives to avoid the personal discipline that is really necessary. It is hard to gauge a detrimental effect on society. That can usually only be seen after a great catastrophe.
Take the AIDS epidemic. It used to be OK to have unprotected sex with anyone you wanted, because the worst case scenario is that your spouse would divorce you, or you would need to get a shot from the doctor. That lack of personal responsibility allowed AIDS to spread, and unprotected sex is now considered poor judgment, but it still happens. It is not fair because it endangers the rest of us, and costs us all more money to help contain the epidemic and treat the "victims".
I hope this helps.
xylem
It is human nature to attempt to divert guilt from yourself to someone else. But the fact is, no one other than ourselves is responsible, because no one MAKES us do anything. Everyone has temptations for wrongdoing (sin, if you will), but whether or not we give in to them is up to us, alone. Whether it is the obese person who claims they have a gland condition, the drunk laying in the gutter claiming they are an alcoholic, the shoplifter claiming cleptomania, or the employer taking sexual liberties with an employee while claiming sexual addiction, every single one is responsible for their condition because no one MADE them give in to their particular temptation.
To every one of them, I say:
Get up!
Stand on your feet!
Make up your mind that only YOU can help you!
And quit blaming your parents, your siblings, your genes or your society for your problems.
Take control of your own life, and be the person you CAN be with a lot of determination.
And I do not speak from lack of experience with this, either.
I smoked for forty years, and have completely quit.
I was a slave to alcohol for nearly as long, and have completely quit.
And you can do it too, once you decide the problem is not some outside force over which you have no control, but rather in your lack of real desire to change the way you are living your life.
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