Quote Originally Posted by bipper View Post
I doubt it. Look at life. Look at how many people cannot manage credit, refuse to pay bills, encroach false debts on others and screw with systems in place to make a measly dollar. Look at the cliche' trailer trash and look at the vast population unwilling to take responsibility and more willing to live in a shepherded, socialistic, and policed state. There are far too many. I honestly can see where life can become too full of responsibility, where you would have to depend on a governing entity to provide. This is the very basis of society. Now, the government does need to back off on several censorship issues, I would agree - however, it is proven that people are incredibly impressionable.
The way I see it, most of those people are feckless and irresponsible precisely because they can afford to be. The government will bail them out if they screw up. I've seen that exact thing happening here in England. People do no take personal responsibility, and if something goes wrong, it is up to some other power to both take the blame, and fix the mess. That has extended far further, so people are irresponsible in almost every area of life. I don't care about that in and of itself, but society forces me to have an interest in it by forcing me to fund the healthcare, schooling, etc. of everyone else. Anyway, by removing these crutches, people might not actually become more responsible - but the successful will do better, and end up by simply overtaking those who don't act in a reasonably wise manner, and the matter will eventually be resolved in that way.