> Second, what happened with personal responsibility?
This breaks down when some body else's lack of personal responsibility impacts me. For example, a drunk driver colliding head on with me on the highway. In this case, it's everyone else gravitating to "free" services which in turn make them so ubiquitous that it's near impossible to escape. Even though I don't use Gmail, I'm still impacted when all my contacts use it to send me email.
Sure, I guess I could be personally responsible by disowning those contacts, but that's in the extremes.
That's probably an even better example but for some reason that's still a political issue, and I didn't want to get into that. At least when talking about drunk drivers, everyone can agree it's real, bad, and not the victim's fault.
> Even though I don't use Gmail, I'm still impacted when all my contacts use it to send me email.
No, you are not. Even if you wanted to treat it as such, you could drop all incoming email from google, or auto-respond to people saying they need a different email address to reach you.
And if you think that doing that is a bad idea at the individual level, ask yourself why would it be acceptable at the global sphere.
This breaks down when some body else's lack of personal responsibility impacts me. For example, a drunk driver colliding head on with me on the highway. In this case, it's everyone else gravitating to "free" services which in turn make them so ubiquitous that it's near impossible to escape. Even though I don't use Gmail, I'm still impacted when all my contacts use it to send me email.
Sure, I guess I could be personally responsible by disowning those contacts, but that's in the extremes.