English Post Two: Personal Responsibility

How do you define personal responsibility? When something bad happens that involves you, how do you know whether or not you bear some responsibility for it?

I'm not going to lie, I chuckled when I saw what this post is about. Responsibility. We all saw this coming.
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-->So what is personal responsibility? Essencially, it is ensuring that no one gets harmed because of you. In a nutshell. If you are driving while texting, eating, just not looking at the road, fishing, changing your pants, what have you, then if you get in an accident, it is your fault. No jury in their right minds will argue in your favor, because you were the one not being personally responsible. You had essencially just decreed that whatever distraction had been entertaining your attention was more important than the safety and general well-being of yourself and everyone else around you.
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-->But what if you weren't changing your pants while driving? What if you were the helpless citezen who was obeying all the traffic laws when some other psycho came tearing down the street with a phone glued to his face and decided to crawl up your bumper? In that case, no one will question your personal responsibility (to be honest, no one will really care about you at all; they'll all be too busy knocking the other guy over the head with scraps from his own car). Because it was the other dude not giving a <<word_of_choice_here>> about being responsible.
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--> Another example: say you leand your friend a boat for the weekend. The boat sinks. Whose fault is it? If your friend was drunk and was too busy seeing rainbow ponies to realize he was coming up on some shoals, than it's probably his. But if your friend was in fact completely sober and you later realize you had forgotten to inform your friend that your boat is from the stone age and it may have a hole or twenty, then you were frankly not being personally responsible.
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That is all. The end.
.......I still can't figure out how to change the title.. any help with that, please? and also, can we post other things on this blog, or is it strictly for school stuff? just wondering.