If the Earth was going to die — and the way things were going, thanks to people such as himself, this seemed like the inevitable outcome — wasn't it the responsibility of decent Christians to preserve the teachings of the prophets, to insure the survival of at least a single community of believers in the universe?
Instead of enabling people who feel this way, it is our responsibility as decent human beings to confront them with their acceptance of Trump's racism as an extension and continuation of racism in America.
We do have responsibilities to take decent care of ourselves; we have duties to self, to others (family, coworkers, and society as a whole), and, yes, in a very different way to God.
Osborne argues that the responsibility for ensuring decent living standards should be rebalanced from the state handing out subsidies towards employers providing decent wages.
Regardless of whether the United States captured these prisoners or has actual custody of them, it shares with the Afghan government responsibility for their decent care.
The bottom line is that if, as the survey suggests, Millennials expect to have it all a good salary, fulfilling work, responsibility, and a decent work/life balance they'll probably be need to be both doers and managers.
This is a long-haul change in working culture, not an instant quid pro quo: far from bowing to business, Osborne demands that employers accept their social responsibility to pay decent wages.
Each of us has a personal responsibility to be decent and fair and insist that others be so in our presence.
Just as in those fresh days from decades ago, Baez continues to sing out injustice, the challenge and responsibility to be decent in a world bent on bending goodness into greed and simple pleasure into perversity.
FDR's New Deal in the 1930s and Truman's Fair Deal after WWII both recognized the responsibility of a decent and civilized society to provide a social safety net, that communities were important and that individuals deserved to be protected from oppression and exploitation by the powerful (including, one might posit, gun owners).
