Responsibility

I talk about personal responsibility and the importance of it quite a bit and this ranchers lack of it is a perfect example. I am just going on this news report and don't have the whole history at hand but he is getting what he deserves if he let cattle wander onto the highway after repeated warnings and didn't keep his fences up. I luckily don't have the problem of pastures along highways so its not something I have to worry about but some neighbors do and they say it's a pain.

I don't care if my cows are hit by cars. I make more money claiming them on my insurance than selling them at the auction.

This kind of attitude just show the lack of responsibility that I don't like. It's a callous disregard for life, people or cattle, and is criminal.

life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps