[MD] A Place for the Principled Person

[Gene M]

On 7/10/06, Arlo J. Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>
> [Gene]
> People need to understand their responsibility, as individuals, to
> society.
> That's what I think.
>
> [Arlo]
> This wording worries me, because those like Platt will simply read
> "responsbility" simply as "responsibility to adhere to the particular
> social
> morals I adhere to". I see "responsibility" more along the lines of, "if I
> have
> to have less, so that we can have public libraries, then so be it" or "one
> night a week I volunteer to teach kids how to read".


Oh, assuredly! I think the key is the idea of Personal Responsibility, as
opposed to Social Responsibility. The latter is where we do things because
we have to, and we don't have to like or understand it. The former we do
things because we want to, in full knowledge of what are actions are for.

What we really need is a Whole lot more of the former, and Whole lot less of
the latter.

What we really need is to have every possible aspect of ignorance stamped
out of the world. But that's even less likely! Cause it seems like there's
little people like more than some good olf fashioned ignorance!

-Gene