Responsibility falls on everyone's shoulders

As children, we are instilled with a sense of responsibility, which Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE) describes as being accountable of your actions, pursuing a path of excellence and the exercising self-control.

If we ask for a dog or a cat, and our parents buy it for us, they stress to us the importance of being responsible and taking care of our pet, which meant feeding it, bathing it, making sure it gets enough exercise and cleaning up any messes it makes.

However, responsibility doesn’t stop at childhood. If anything, it becomes more important as we grow older because our acti...