Personal Responsibility

Another great title if I can say so myself. I ended my last post with these two important words also. Most Americans have a tremendous lack of personal responsibility. Either the government or God will save us all! These aren't our only saviors, but two significant ones. Parents can sometimes create this lack of personal responsibility by the way they raise their children. Kids often do what they want because they know their parents will "bail them out." Just like corporations not taking responsibility for their actions and knowing the government will bail them out. Others rely far too much on medicine to cure all their problems, when the only permanent cures reside in our own efforts and attitudes. Because we are such an obese country, we obviously think we can eat whatever we want because the food companies are looking out for our own good. Sure...

These are all great restraints keeping humans from taking complete responsibility for their lives. I only named a few, but there are several more. The one above all others has to be that which says "Do whatever you want while your here. You cannot be perfect in God's eyes. And since you are all sinners, go sin. Jesus will save you in the end! Just believe in him." This takes away ALL responsibility from one's life. Why have any morals or any other reason to act righteously? All will be forgiven right? I'm not saying everyone who believes in Jesus is irresponsible. It just makes it that much easier to not take responsibility for yourself and for your actions.

Not many of us would eat a cow if we had to slaughter it ourselves. We have better morals than to kill an animal ourselves. So why do we say "Who cares?" when it's done a few states away? Because we don't feel that sense of personal responsibility. We just see a delicious steak. We don't have to think about how it became a piece of food. We don't tend to think we need to eat healthy because the government created the FDA, and the FDA controls the food supply. Yet, look one step further and you'll see that food companies control the FDA. This is how it works for almost every part of government. We're told that something is being regulated, we just don't know the real definition of regulation and to who's standards.

We have to stop relying on outside sources to create for us. We each have our own duty to not steal from our neighbor and to not kill our brother. It should not make a difference if the government decides to make these two duties laws or not. Just because it's not against the law the slaughter animals, it doesn't mean we should regularly support this action. The government is a huge corporation, and ALL corporations are self-serving. We cannot make choices based on what the masses do and what the media suggests. Each person needs to feel responsible for spending $20 on beer instead of helping clean up our environment, starting first and foremost with our own brethren, humankind.