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Topic History of: Responsibility Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
Backintheday wrote: Wyot wrote: Oscar Freedom wrote: Oscar Freedom wrote: It is the first responsibility of a government to protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens.
The official government policy from the Home Office website - the first line says it all.
Always a constant stimulation debating with you Barney...
I imagine it is as riveting for non posters as it is for me.
I will try and contain all the excitement
A good evening to you Wyot.
What are you smoking Barney?
Backintheday
Wyot wrote: Oscar Freedom wrote: Oscar Freedom wrote: It is the first responsibility of a government to protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens.
The official government policy from the Home Office website - the first line says it all.
Wyot
Green Man wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Oscar Freedom wrote:
Why is it the government or taxpayers responsibility?
I don't think it is their responsibility. That said, as a tax payer I am happy to support those destitute and in genuine need. But this presupposes that the individual and their family have taken responsibility already; and this has not worked.
What happens now is the individual believes the responsibility sits with the state initially and primarily; which leads to social decay on every level.
And a victim culture as people's lives don't live up to expectations, the responsibility for which they see also sitting with the "state" (or let's say the system), rather than themselves.
As victims it is then seen as their right to gain compensation from "the system". Or, more pertinent to this site perhaps, a celebrity. Unhappy, unfulfilled people, schooled to believe they are both entitled and wronged, are a cancer on our society.