Personal responsibility or Individual Responsibility is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions.
A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable. Personal responsibility can be contrasted to the idea that human actions are caused by conditions beyond the agent’s control.
Since the late 19th-century, personal responsibility has become increasingly associated with political conservatism and libertarianism.
More recently, personal responsibility has been associated with the reform of social welfare programs (e.g. in the Personal Responsibility and Welfare Reform Act of 1996).
The earliest known English use of the phrase is by Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel Gorham at the U.S. Constitutional Convention on July 18, 1787.[1]
Keep in mind that these folks believed in a “stout” Judeo-Christian ethic as well. There was robustly affirmed to be an almighty entity of lovingkindness to which the response was due. That it was folly simply to live to our own approval, but that it was incumbent upon us to answer to a heaven that forgives all but excuses nothing.
We have become fish out of water.
No, sugar addiction is not just personal responsibility.
Sugar is EVERYWHERE. It is a killer.
There are hundreds of sugar eateries in your city.
Name just ONE social setting that is healthy??
No sugar. No booze. No salt.
No “get the hell out of here”, after your 5 minutes are up.
There AIN’T none. We are surrounded by illness.