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Responsibility (other)
Responsibility may refer to: * Collective responsibility * Corporate social responsibility * Duty * Legal liability * Legal obligation * Legal responsibility (other) * Media responsibility * Moral responsibility, or personal responsibility * Obligation * Professional responsibility * Responsibility assumption, a doctrine in existential psychotherapy * Social responsibility * Single responsibility principle * Responsibility for the burning of Smyrna * Responsibility for the Holocaust * The Westminster system constitutional conventions of: ** Cabinet collective responsibility ** Individual ministerial responsibility As a proper name * ''Responsibility'' (novel), by Nigel Cox * "Responsibility" (song), by punk band MxPx See also * * * * Accountability * Blame * Moral hazard In economics, a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs of that risk. For example, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collective Responsibility
Collective responsibility, also known as collective guilt, refers to responsibilities of organizations, groups and societies. Collective responsibility in the form of collective punishment is often used as a disciplinary measure in closed institutions, e.g. boarding schools (punishing a whole class for the actions of one known or unknown pupil), military units, prisons (juvenile and adult), psychiatric facilities, etc. The effectiveness and severity of this measure may vary greatly, but it often breeds distrust and isolation among their members. Historically, collective punishment is a sign of authoritarian tendencies in the institution or its home society. In ethics, both methodological individualists and normative individualists question the validity of collective responsibility. Normally, only the individual actor can accrue culpability for actions that they freely cause. The notion of collective culpability seems to deny individual moral responsibility. Contemporary systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Responsibility For The Burning Of Smyrna
The question of who was responsible for starting the burning of Smyrna continues to be debated, with Turkish sources mostly attributing responsibility to Greeks or Armenians, and vice versa. Other sources, on the other hand, suggest that at the very least, Turkish inactivity played a significant part on the event. Sources claiming Turkish responsibility George Horton's account George Horton was the U.S. Consul General of Smyrna. He was compelled to evacuate Smyrna on 13 September, and arrived in Athens on 14 September. In 1926, he published his own account of what happened in Smyrna, titled ''The Blight of Asia''. He included testimony from a number of eyewitnesses and quoted a number of contemporary scholars. Horton's account states that the last of the Greek soldiers had abandoned Smyrna during the evening of 8 September since it was known in advance that Turkish soldiers would arrive on 9 September. Origins of the Fire Horton said that Turkish soldiers set the fire, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
