Accepting responsibility for your actions

[FROSTY:Me]

Hey could i have feedback from the younger generation on this question please?

What has happened to taking personal responsibility ?
Id like to hear from the under 30's here

[Nasty]

Define younger generation ....

Then Personal responsbility ....

That will allow for less question interpretation.

[MSTRS:Me]

Hey could i have feedback from the younger generation on this question please?

Hey...I'm (still) young...

What has happened to taking personal responsibility ?

Cos I'm not THAT young, I'm not qualified to answer...

[Indiana_Jones]

I'm with Frosty on this one, I want to know where it has gone too.

-Indy

[FROSTY:Me]

Heres a perfect example. A kid just rocks in here carrying his broken bike. "Hows it broken?". Ohh its a peice of junk it just broke.
ok so it was just standing there and broke? No
Ok so you were just riding it on the road as its desighned to be ridden? Yea!! so you weren't jumping it? NO
Ohh so howd it break?? --Its Junk!!
-Dude theres concrete scrape marks under it
Yea well its just cos its junk
Ok so the concrete isnt from those stairs over there
Yea but it broke cos its junk

[Nasty]

Ah right .. another lot of hypotheticals ... still

Define Young Define Personal responsbility ...

Don't use crappy examples ... provide definitions ...

[FROSTY:Me]

Another example. A bunch of guys are walking down the road past an old house with a window. One guy tempted by who knows what throws a stone through the window. Turns out the window was actually being watched by the local cops. Minutes later the group is stopped and one guy is singled out as the stone thrower. Seems to me the right thing to do is to own up and face the concequences. Doesn't seem to be the case with todays youth. They are happy to leave it to their mates to hang for their crime

[sunhuntin]

depends on who you strike really.

my brother, who is almost 30, has no sense of personal responsibility [would YOU leave a bottle of alcohol flavouring in the front of a car within reach of a 3 year old? if yes, and the 3 year old opened it and it got spilled, who would you blame? yourself or the child?]
he was raised as though the sun shines out his backside. end result is through all his hell raising, he got no consequences [by rights, he should have had a jail term in his late teens for drugs] but the folks bailed him out of every little thing. end result is they are beyond broke [continuing the bail him and his kids out] and chances are both our inheritances will be almost nothing.
myself, i know full well when the blame is mine, and i generally step up to the plate. im 24 if that makes any difference. sure, ive fucked up a fair bit, but ive never been brought home by the cops, caused a major accident by drink or drugs which almost killed a few people or ended up in hospital having my stomach pumped.

its this kinda stuff that brings me back to the nature vs nurture argument. im fairly sure the majoirty of his faults come from his birth family, cos for the most part we were raised the same as kids. hes been fucked in the head his entire life. though his treatment during his teenage years can solely be blamed on the olds. i dread the day they are gone, cos i will be the one he comes to for money and other bail outs. wonder if i can divorce him and his offspring? got no intention of wasting my time. as it is, we dont speak and consider each other strangers when in town.

[The Stranger:Me]

Define younger generation ....

Then Personal responsbility ....

That will allow for less question interpretation.

<30

Responsibility for your own deeds and actions or lack there of.

If people really have that much trouble with the concept heaven help us all!

[Spyke]

Your parents are liable for most things till your 18. It was the parents fault of course.

I think its the way society is now (everyone tries to hold no liability for anything), they are just replicating what they see happening all over the world. Tis sad and to think they are going to be running businesses when they're older

[Blackbird]

Frosty, I hear what you're saying mate (and why) but it's not limited in any shape or form to the younger generation. Last year, there was a TV news piece which was to do with young people's behaviours and some twat from one of the Labour-led quangos was there as large as life saying that schools had a responsibility to instill the correct behaviours.

WTF???? I was so angry that I didn't realise that I was shouting at the TV, bringing my wife in from the garden to see what was going on

Seems like some of the older generation need to do some accepting too. Trouble is, it gets institutionalised across generations and that takes some fixing.

[MSTRS:Me]

If people really have that much trouble with the concept heaven help us all!

The thing is, if "you've" never learned personal responsibility, then how do you understand the concept?
Different story if "you" just don't care...

[popa griffin]

I happen to think.

If im doing something stupid and i get caught then thats fair.

If i get away with it, then thats awsome.


Like speeding. and shit like that.

[sunhuntin]

Your parents are liable for most things till your 18. It was the parents fault of course.

in my case, most of it was their fault. too scared of their own son to lay down the rules. too pathetic to prevent him getting so much power over them in the first place. sad when a 14 year old sees the truth more clearly that those much older. even today, its the same with his kids... spoilt rotten by my parents, mum especially and she is too blind to see thats where she went wrong the first time. only by pure luck that i didnt follow his path.

[Nasty]

<30

Responsibility for your own deeds and actions or lack there of.

If people really have that much trouble with the concept heaven help us all!

Allow for the perception that Mstrs tells us he is young .. .then tell me I am wrong to seek a definition ... allow for the fact that I am younger than the person who posed the question .. therefore I consider myself younger ....

The fact that you define it as <30 I would like to see the answers myself ... but I also believe that there are alot of older people who have no idea of it and I would love to see them own up to why they don't bother!