Responsibility

[andrewducker]

This is inspired by the comment here, where ladysysiphus says "If you have consumed enough alcohol to impair your judgement, I believe you then have to take at least some responsibility for putting yourself in a position where something like this might happen."

[Poll #619684]

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

In this respect, I believe you are at odds with the way the law works and most of the rest of the population think.

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Pretty much what I was going to say.

[andrewducker]

And I don't really care what most of the population think. As far as I can tell, most of the population doesn't.

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Well yes, sadly a large proportion of the population have demonstrated their inability to think their way out of a brown paper bag...

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I'm with Andy on this one.

[andrewducker]

I'm not talking about the way the law works, and mostly I consider the law to be very odd and to contain a large number of ideas which are clearly nonsense.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

The Law is also not necessarily in line with what the rest of the population thinks, as much as both of those are not in line with Andy.

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

If you pop out from round a corner at someone with a weak heart, not knowing they were there, and they have a heart attack, I'd say you were *responsible* for the heart attack - an action from you caused it - but in no way *to blame* for it.