lunes, 21 de febrero de 2011

Types of responsibility

Moral responsibility: Caring, defending, helping, bulding, protecting and sustaining.
You're accountable for treating other living things and for being environmentally aware.

Legal responsibility: To the laws and ordinances of your community, state or country. If there's a law you believe is outdated, unjust, discreminatory or unfair you can work to change, improve pr eliminate it. Yo can't simply decide to desobey it.

Family responsibility: This means treating your parents, siblings and other relatives with love and respect, following your parents rules and doing chores and duties at home.

Community responsibility: Unless you're a hermit that lives in his car, you're part of a community. As such you're responsable for treating others as you want to be treated, for participating in community activities and desicions for being an outstanding citizen.

Personal responsibility: It's up to ypu to become a person of a good character, you parents

lunes, 10 de enero de 2011

Respect includes taking someone's feelings, needs, thoughts, ideas, wishes and preferences into consideration. It means taking all of these seriously and giving them worth and value. In fact, giving someone respect seems similar to valuing them and their thoughts, feelings, etc. It also includes acknowledging them, listening to them, being truthful with them, and accepting their individuality and idiosyncrasies.
Respect can be shown through behavior and it can also be felt. We can act in ways which are considered respectful, yet we can also feel respect for someone and feel respected by someone. Because it is possible to act in ways that do not reflect how we really feel, the feeling of respect is more important than the behavior without the feeling. When the feeling is there, the behavior will naturally follow.
Nowadays it seems much more possible to survive without being respected. We can all sense whether we are respected or not. This holds true for those with money and power as well. Moreover, it is quite possible that those who pursue money and power are actually trying to gain a type of respect that they never have truly felt.