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Re: responsibility and blame

Posted by mattdds on June 2, 2003, at 20:03:27

In reply to Re: responsibility and blame » Dinah, posted by Larry Hoover on June 2, 2003, at 12:48:05

Larry did a good job with the blame / responsibility thing.

Here's my take, which is very close. I am going to try to make some definitions.

Responsibility - A sense of awareness of one's potential influence on an outcome. This sense of awareness realizes and accepts the implicit limitations of being human. It also encompasses an awareness of other mitigating factors that are involved in the outcome.

Blame - An awareness that gives excessive, and arbitrarily selective attention to the influence one had on a *negative* outcome. It fails to recognize that there were other mitigating factors involved in the undesirable result.

Does this help?

All the best!

Matt


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