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

[chuma.livejournal.com]

In all of the cases above "Partially Responsible". Why? Because everyone has to take responsibility for their own actions. What happens to you, if as a direct result of your own actions, is at least in part your own fault. You cannot complain if you put yourself in danger when you are a victim. In all of the cases above is it without argument that the people there have put themselves in a position to have someone or something negative have an impact upon them. If they had have done things differently, like got a taxi, or kept to the main roads, or not been so ignorant (ignorance kills like no other) etc then they would not have come to harm. Theres common sense lacking in all the situations above.

That said, are any of them guilty of any of the violence or acts? No. They are the innocent party, if clueless. But as George Carlin put it, "There's no such thing as an innocent. As a human being, when you're born until the day you die, you're just fucking guilty my friends. You're fucking GUILTY".