Personally, I wish we could claim that “people are responsible for themselves” is not valid. Simply, because I battle with the consequences of knowing that I cannot blame others for my poor behaviour – he made me do it . . . is such a nice cop-out. But not true.
If the fundamental principle that people are responsible for themselves is not accepted, there can be no responsibility and no accountability, which means there can be no order.
Denying that people are responsible for themselves, would allow everybody to think that somebody is responsible, and, in the end, nobody does anything.
You are response-able – able to respond.
Dr SR Covey
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