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[knullare]

"This goes back to your inability to make a distinction between rights and obligations, and the implicit decency among people."

One of my online friends from Deadjournal put it beautifully.

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[aurorawolf88]

To what was [s]he referring, if I may ask?

[knullare]

Nothing specific, just a discussion I was having about speeding or something.

[worldandtime]

I think it's much more likely to be a lack of desire rather than inability. The latter is, I think, just a cop-out. But with that quibble, yeah, I agree. The former problem--a confusion of rights and obligations, or more accurately, I think, a confusion of rights and privileges--is arguably at the heart of modern American social problems.

And, frankly, given human nature, probably most tensions in most societies throughout recorded history. And maybe before ;-)