We have our great legal system in particular, lawyers, to thank for all that. We have become a country of non-accountability. Nobody is willing to accept responsibility for their own actions. Why should they when it has become soooooo easy to just sue someone.
"Sort of" is such a harmless thing to say. "Sort of". It's just a filler. "Sort of" - It doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, "sort of" means everything. Like after "I love you" or "You're going to live" or "It's a boy".