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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: BEING RESPONSIBLE
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 16:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 11 16:09:00 1985
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> 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