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Originally Posted by fragment
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
A reader is not being held responsible in that sense. You’re mixing two different definitions of responsibility. For example, it is my responsibility to pick up the children from school. I am not being held responsible if I fail to live up to what is my responsibility. See the difference?
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No.
But it doesn't matter, allow me to ask a modified question.
How can someone have a "burden of responsibility" "when a more satisfying option is available"? |
They would have the burden of responsibility if that’s what they volunteered for. By shirking it they would be hurting those who depended on them as in the previous example. Just as in the world we are living, making a commitment to do something and then fail to deliver would cause most people to have a twinge of conscience. It would just be even stronger under the changed conditions knowing that nobody would blame them for this failure because they would know what they did was beyond their control. IOW, a more satisfying option (i.e. the option to walk away from what they know is their responsibility) would give them no satisfaction at all and therefore impossible to choose.