3 Quotes by Kent Greenfield

The rhetoric of personal responsibility is often a cover for the avoidance of shared responsibility. A fixation on the choices of the last person in the causal chain allows us to feel comfortable with a lack of charity springing from our hearts or wallets.

A respect for choice, if taken seriously, does not translate into the simplistic libertarian prescriptions often trotted out on the heels of the personal responsibility rhetoric. It is impossible to have accountability for choices with no legal or regulatory mechanism to enforce it.

...we may be too distracted by the options at our grocery stores and on our television sets to recognize the dearth of choices in our politics and culture, or our inability to choose differently.