Taking responsibility for one's own actions so as not to be morally wrong in principle or practice.

Originally coined by the Scots during The Highland Potato Famine of the 19th century, a famous period in Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856).

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy