Category: Personal Responsibility

  • Getting Beyond the Dogma of Personal Reponsibility

    James Tissot [Public domain],via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday my friend Robert Charlock submitted a letter to the Indianapolis Star regarding the need for a Homeless Bill of Rights in Indianapolis.  The self-righteous on-line comments of those who assume poverty is usually the result of personal choices quickly emerged: “How many brought this upon themselves? When having a…