Personal Responsibility

[101recon]

I agree! We all need to accept personal responsibility whether we are underwater or top-side! This seems to happen less and less! in our society!

Agreed!
If all divers accepted more personal responsibility for themselves AND their dive buddies diving would inherently be safer.
There are presently a couple of hot threads on this board that I think are indirectly addressing this very issue.The"How happy are you with today's level of Diver Education?" thread and the "Recreational agency standards: Ranking and why?" threads are great examples.Rather than high jack this thread,I'll post the rest of this rant in the "How happy are you with today's level of Diver Education?" thread.

 

[sdorn]

It would be interesting to see the percentage of people on this forum that believe strongly in personal responsibility that are liberals vs. conservatives (as opposed to democrats vs republicans which isn't the same thing). You would expect a very strong correlation between conservatives and people who believe in personal responsibility (as that is one of the fundamental guiding principals of conservatism). Just food for thought, as this thread so far seems to be a pretty broad discussion of the topic of personal responsibility (and probably should be moved out of the A&I forum).

 

[rligon]

I tend to agree that we do accept more personal responsibility, and have a theory that it may be to some extent a learned response. In our sport, when you screw up and survive, there is very seldom someone else we can point to and say 'it was your fault'. If you are the type of person who continues to dive, then you have to look at it and think that not only was it your fault, but what the consequences would have been if it had gotten worse. So as we gain experience in our sport, we also learn that our own actions control how the sport goes for us.

BTW, in researching the McDonalds case for a business law class, they actually had paid the bills of previous injuries but refused to in this case. The lady involved was only trying to recover her medical expenses, it was the jury that awarded millions (most of which were overturned).