(In 1986, the State of California actually set up a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, aimed at combatting drug abuse, welfare dependency, and other conditions presumably fostered by low self-esteem. It didn't work very well, nor did other, similar programs.
One teacher explained that "Most of the sexual harassment training was viewed as a 'human resource' responsibility, aimed at adults in the workplace and not as a problem that students experience".
But charity can create dependency relationships whereas social responsibility aims at social justice, understood as developing sustainable relationships based on mutual respect.
Analysts say the focus on social responsibility is aimed at deflecting possible criticism from being associated with China's more controversial environmental and human rights policies.
The administration, anticipating that argument, called its tax a "financial crisis responsibility fee" aimed at those institutions whose risk-taking caused the problem in the first place.
England is but one of more than 30 European countries that have producer responsibility laws aimed at reducing packaging waste, some in place for up to 20 years.
Last week, the Obama administration announced plans for a financial crisis responsibility fee, aimed at its biggest banks and intended to complete the recovery of the cost to taxpayers of the American bank bailout program.
