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

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

So ... if you are responsible for walking down a back alley, you are merely responisble for the fact that you walked in a certan direction and ended up in a certain position, and not for any of the things which may happen in that place?

[andrewducker]

Exactly. You were responsible for placing yourself in that place, not for the things that happened to you there. It may well have been a risky choice you made - and you are responsible for having taken that risk - but that doesn't mean that you are responsible for things other people choose to do to you - they're responsible for that.