"One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives. However, the conditions in which people find themselves have been largely established long before people become aware of them. Thus, the concept of personal responsibility is much more complicated and unrealistic than is often assumed."
Related:
- The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction.
Although societies must hold individuals accountable... - People who have nothing to say often do and take a good long time doing it.
People who have something to say, often do not. People... - Non-fiction often is more unrealistic than
fiction... - old fart n.
Tribal elder. A title self-assumed with
remarkable frequency by (esp.) Usenetters who have been
programming for more than about 25 years;
often appears in sig blocks attached to Jargon Fi ... - I have noticed that the people who are late are often
so much jollier than the people who have to wait for... - To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious,
or social estab- lishment is very dangerous and very... - coefficient of X n.
Hackish speech makes heavy use of
pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
Four particularly important ones involve the terms... - Most people - one may say the best sort of people -
greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however... - hog n.,vt.
1. Favored term to describe programs or
hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's
resources,
esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive ...
