It's time people took some personal responsibility for their actions. So in the midst of watching the shooting in Aurora and watching my twitter feed fill up with Aussie's screaming about gun control, which I'm not going to discuss, because I'll just piss a lot of people off, I was reading some other articles on news.com.au and there was one about fat people not being to blame for being fat. It claims junk food companies and lack of playgrounds are to blame . Dr Samantha Thomas, who spoke at the annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference in Melbourne, said the war on obesity was failing because society put too much emphasis on personal responsibility. "Obesity rates are still increasing because we put all the responsibility on the individual, but are completely reluctant to tackle the corporations that are part of the cause -- the junk food companies, the soft drink companies, even the town planners who design new suburbs with no backyards or playgrounds," Dr Thomas said. This is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. "Too much emphasis on personal responsibility?" What kind of nanny state has Australia turned into when people can get away with saying that there's too much emphasis on personal responsibility?  As a people, have we really gotten to the point where we just expect everyone else to take care of us? To feed us, to clothe us? To tell us what we should be eating and drinking and supplying us