The Right talkes a lot about personal responsibility, but what about social responsibility?

[white_wolf]

I firmly disagree with this notion that people have a right to make profits in a way that exploits or harms others. If you can raise profits by cutting a workers wages and thus hurting him and his family, you do not have a right to do that. If you can raise profits by polluting the environment and harming future generations, you don't have a right do that. We all have a responsibility to our society as a whole and not simply to ourselves. To quote Jefferson on the matter: "A man has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."

[dtexdem]

1. They talk about personal responsibility but don't practice it.

They don't believe in social responsibility, and certainly don't practice it.

Hmm, seems like what they talk about is less important than what they do, huh?

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Concepts of social responsibility, related to civic duty, are extinct in the Republican Party...

and endangered almost everywhere else in this country.

President Kennedy's statement, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" is considered quaint and European. As a nation of individualists, and in a party where individualism is God, we should not be surprised that these notions have died.

The real cost of any object should include the cost of cleaning up for the mess made in its construction ad its eventualy destruction.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Yes, social responsibility was replaced in 1980 with 'every man for himself'.