[esarbe]

Putting it like that makes it easy to distance oneself from responsibility.

Government is just a function of agreed upon values, rules and principles.

It's really a failure of our society. We're all failing.

[koonsolo]

No it is not distancing from responsibility. Governments are democratically elected by everyone. So it is clear everyone is to blame.

When you put the blame on big companies, like the person I replied to, that is distancing! Because we cannot influence those decisions.