Don't get it twisted I live a life of service. I thought at primary and highschool in Tobago right after leaving A levels. I coached primary school football, I was a volunteer coach at St. Clairs C.S. While in college in the states i was a member of numerous organizations doing my fair share of community service. I'm working on my PhD now and I still find time to coach at the YMCA. If i make a comment is because I can back it up.
My problem is not with him doing community service but labelling it as punishment. Community service is not a punishment it is a social responsibility. When Barack declared Monday January 19th a day of service where were you?
I was in front of my TV shaking off slumber, in my flannel PJs sipping on cocoa, taking in the festivities from the warm, cozy confines of my couch. Not that that has to do with anything... but I'm sure your life is further enriched for the knowledge.
Additionally, I didn't get anything twisted... I asked you a simple question as to whether YOU had a responsibility. Rather than answer the question you chose to relate to me your life story. Unlike you I feel no need to get into my civic activities, but suffice to say that what you have accomplished and what you are doing isn't anything special, my own activities/achievements easily match or surpass what you've posted.
That aside you didn't "back up" anything, in that you haven't outlined how your civic activities are a 'responsibility'. A responsibility is a duty owed, the failure which to perform carries some form of sanction or penalty. Any volunteering that I personally undertake to do, I do so out of a sense of altruism, not because I have a 'responsibility' to do it. Even if I feel indebted to the point that
I make it
my duty to give back, I assume that duty of my own will, and it's not my place to transfer the same onto others.
Rather than be in such a haste to question what others are doing, while simultaneously thumping your own chest... maybe you should slow down and take some time to sort out your homonyms... I'd like to believe that all of us have 'thought' at some point in primary and secondary school.