Cult of No Responsibility

I made fun of Korea and the cult of victimology that seems to thrive there. In Canada and the US we have a similar problem in a different way. People just don't seem to take responsibility for what they do. They always seem to dregde up some excuse so as not to blame themselves.

On the extreme end of it you have the assholes who act badly, attack people, or even kill people. It is all the rage and has been for a while. Someone acts out on an airplane and it isn't their fault it is air rage. Some mook doesn't like the way another one is driving and runs him off the road, road rage. Cyclists get pissy, bike rage. Racial Rage. The list goes on. In the end it is just another way of not taking responsibility for our actions.

Now you have the family of a mook who rioted in Vancouver blaming the crowd for egging him on rather than suggesting little Nathan man up and take responsibility for his actions. It also begs the question if the crowd had egged him on to kill someone would it be his fault or would that excuse it to some degree?

Growing up I was taught that we were supposed to take responsibility for our actions, and even our inactions. Sometimes I wonder if that was a rare thing to learn and if Parents stopped teaching it.