Which side of the fence are you on?
In conversation today, you might hear words such as accountability and responsibility. Newscasters speculate about who will be held accountable for certain actions. Others postulate about what responsibility some aspect of society had for the actions of another. Yet so many times, there is very little reference to the actions of one being called into account simply on their own merit. We see shooters destroy innocent lives - then blame the lack of gun control as the "responsible" party. When "breaking down" the influencing factors in the shooter's life, we gravitate toward what the parents did or didn't do, who should have recognized the mental health issues apparent in the shooter's life, etc. We rarely gravitate to the place of saying this man or woman was totally accountable for their own actions. Why? Society today seems to want to "share" accountability and responsibility for the actions of individuals - not because they want to ...