Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: BEING RESPONSIBLE Message-ID: <1691@hao.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 16:09:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1691 Posted: Sun Aug 11 16:09:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 03:22:05 EDT References: <2471@ut-sally.UUCP> <1441@peora.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 13 > The problem comes when you then go out and make a "gospel" out of this, > and start teaching it to others. Soon, people who have never had the problem > of becoming exhausted by too much concern for others take up the philosophy > as well; and soon, you have a group of people who are basically self-centered, > glorifying their self-centeredness by making it a popular fad While some people can use the concept of being responsible for your own experience as an "excuse" to be self-centered, I do not see how it follows that they WILL do so. That has not been MY experience. It is not a contradiction to recognize that others are reponsible for their own experiences and still care about them. --Greg