Since when did the words "personal responsibility" become taboo?

[The Magistrate]

57. It Certainly Can Be, Sir

But your chosen example bears the relation to what is being discussed that a glow-stick bears to a bolt of lightning. It is the same weakness of argument which occurs when free-marketeers cite a star athlete's pay as an illustration of how rewards equal value in a market economy.

The 'personal responsibility' hue and cry is raised over everything from poor health and lack of education to poverty itself, and culpability for violent or even property crimes is the least of the whole. I said people have to be held responsible, because social order demands it, even though it may often not be just or right to do so, and I stand by that. A great deal of wrong is done by necessity, and accepting this does not require me to like it.

"This is the best world possible. Everything it it is a necessary evil."