He's naked: only his birthday-suited tender self, duty-free.
The Millennials, the authors write, "will correct what they will perceive to be the mistakes... of boomers, by placing positivism over negativism, trust over cynicism, science over spiritualism, team over self, duties over rights, honor over feeling, action over words".
Neil Howe and William Strauss's book "Millennials Rising" -- a survey of the post-Gen X generation -- suggests that the young people born in the early 1980's and afterward are, as a group, less rebellious than their predecessors, more practical-minded, less individualistic and more inclined to value "team over self, duties over rights, honor over feeling, action over words".
From grade school to college to the working world, success depends on being able to tackle ambitious problems with a sense of self-duty.
He was at it again in his ill-fated Women's Institute speech in June 2000, saying: "Respect the old for what it still has to teach, respect for others, honour, self discipline, duty, obligation, the essential decency of the British character".
There are no third-party interests, self-regarding duties, or duties toward objective goods that warrant denying people the right to assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
One said that the offer of support was a self-evident duty as a friend.
But Germany's intra-European solidarity is no longer a reflex or a self-imposed duty.
Or, "We have to be countercultural — after all, Cecile Richards has the self-appointed duty of defining what's pro-woman these days".
"The idea that this information leads to some self-executing duty to suspend the document retention policy," he said, "is wrong".
For the UK, there was always a spectre in our EU membership of the legacy of empire and the self-imposed "duty" to be an autonomous global player.
