Personal responsibility for mature adults includes an increased social conscience. This means less egotistical acts of selfish greed disguised as personal ambition, and more cooperation towards the greater good of shared interests.Canadians are grateful they do not have the extreme povery and crime of the overly competitive U.S.A., where the dog-eat-dog mentality manifests itself in pathetic competitions in every activity imaginable, right up to beauty pageants for 5 year olds.