Disambiguating Responsibility


RESPONSIBILITY: paying the cost of the defense of a personal, private, semi-private, common demonstrated interest. This applies both via positiva (before, demand) and via negativa (after, supply). AGENCY:the capacity to do so (ability, opportunity).

Yes, it really is that simple.

via: contrafabian @ContraFabianist

Acquisition of responsibility (capitalize), delegation of responsibility (trade), externalization of responsibility (consume),
suppression of irresponsibility (constrain the externalization of responsibility: exhausting incentives for capitalization and reciprocal trade)

1. It seems we can further disambiguate the evasion of responsibility with the spectrum: Non-responsibility, partial responsibility, irresponsibility 1.Responsibility avoidance: minimizing the costs of responsibility by limiting the responsibility one takes on(evasion before)

2.Responsibility delegation: minimizing the costs of responsibility by sharing the burden through trade (evasion during)

3.Responsibility externalization: minimizing the costs of responsibility by externalizing the costs of responsibilities one has taken on (evasion after)


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