Editor’s note: This column first ran on May 12, 1997The decay of personal responsibility is well documented in the telephone book.The evidence is in phone books such as the Pacific Bell Smart Yellow Pages. You can find it under the heading “attorneys.”“Attorneys” ads cover 50 pages in the 1997 Stockton edition and 45 in the Stanislaus County edition. In both books, they’re the leading advertisers.Glance through the Yellow Page ads and you’ll find that preoccupation with legal remedies are what ails America.