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user-inactivated · 3729 days ago · link · · parent · post: When is an individual not responsible? What does 'responsible' mean?
i think there are different questions in the scenarios you provided. some of them have to do with civil obedience, others with altruistic behavior. there is a difference in the sense that one is cultural and the other genetic. incarcerating someone for braking a law,...whatever law it may be is a cultural causation; helping children is a genetic rooted cause. so i think the situations you proposed are interesting, however, the reasons are vastly different and hence different conversations- which is probably why it seems like a big question.