[PRCo] Responsibility

[Jim Holland]

trams2 at comcast.net wrote:
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> It has been my experience that lawyers, like all other professionals, 
> have both good actors and bad actors. What bothers me more than the 
> relative worthiness of any profession is the concept that American 
> people don't have to be responsible for their own actions, choosing 
> instead to blame everything on others. Likewise, the application of 
> today's standards to past design practices is specious, just as is the 
> interpretation of history in anything other than its own time.
> If it's our own fault that we kill ourselves, why should others pay?
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> Ed

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I  Have  Constantly // Continually  thought the same:       American 
ethics is to Pass The Buck Of Responsibility  --  Absolutely Never Ever 
Accept Responsibility for Anything!!!
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In stark contrast, Japanese accept and identify their own responsibility 
and this may be true of Asians at large.       This was driven home to 
me when, within the last 20-years, a JAL passenger jet slammed into Mt. 
Fuji.       The President of the Company immediately accepted 
responsibility, took the accident quite personally, and it was feared 
that he might commit suicide  (Not Even Thinking of trying to spell the 
Japanese name for same(!~!))  as a way of identifying personal 
responsibility.
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Americans have been Very Independent Minded ever since the founding of 
the country with Democracy and Free Enterprise accenting this 
independence and lack of responsibility.       Insurance is a prime 
example of passing the buck with InHuman nature kicking in  --  they 
gave an inch so let's take a mile!       The more we get the more we 
expect and we just aren't satisfied.       If we can't get it it is the 
fault of someone else.       We    D--O    have a wonderful country 
here, but because it is an ImPerfect World  --  VERY___FAR  from 
Perfect  --  there are some serious problems as well.!!
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Getting late  --  actually, got late long ago  --  now 4-AM Left Coast 
time and I need to get to bed.       Not thinking clearly and not 
weaving this together properly  --  but has been much on my mind the 
last several weeks.       The more we understand OurSelves and Face the 
Truth  AND  take responsibility for ourselves the more rewarding and 
fulfilling our lives will be.
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Jim___Holland