The failure to assume responsibility for one's actions and the tendency to look to government for everything are among the consequences of the break down of traditional morality Traditional morality is inestimably important. The abandonment of traditional morality leads to expropriation of private property, heavy taxation, theft, waste, compulsory association, totalitarian thought control, sexual exploitation, homeless children, fraud and dishonesty, disloyalty to family, ever increasing government power and control, envy, indiscipline, laziness, individual irresponsibility, indecency, rudeness, impoliteness, social engineering and genocide, not to mention impiety. Destroy a societies values and you can manipulate the people. The values of a society derive over its spiritual and moral foundations. When those foundations are destroyed a vacuum exists and people can be manipulated according to the ideology and power ambitions of ruling elites.
All religions emphasise the importance of duties and responsibilities as distinct from rights.
The Ten Commandments are duties. There is an emphasis on rights to the near exclusion of duties and responsibilities in modern society. If individuals are concerned about their duties, responsibilities and obligations, they cannot but be concerned about the rights, needs and freedoms of others. People are encouraged by individuals, organisations and Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, to demand rights, with no consideration for the effect of these demands on other people. Governments and pressure groups which focus on rights, give no thought to how rights can operate in the absence of a climate in which the importance of duties is emphasised.