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is it a fiction for the concept of personal responsibility?

As a primarily social animal, we have every connection to this world in various aspects, our family, our job, our community, and our society. Every thing we have done, every decision we have made, all have a certain potential risk or reward to undertake. When it comes to the issue for individual responsibility, it is easy for us to blame for one's behavior on the society, the fate, the luck, the greedy and wicked people. However, a true man with maturity and adulthood, should never wave to develop a sense of personal responsibility for his own behavior.

Admittedly, the society and the time that we now live in have a direct influence on our thoughts and ways of life. As the sociologist Rodney Stark tells us in his book Sociology, people tend to behave in the way that he thinks others expect him to do. When we were in our childhood, we didn't understand the meaning of what we are doing. However, it is natural that we learn to behave ourselves as to get our parents...

Posted by: Cinthia De Ruiz

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