Second, it provides a rationalist account for "responsibility shifting" by elected officials – behavior that is usually thought to derive from voter confusion or irrationality.
This accounts for responsibility and responsible behavior on your path.
"Juxtaposition of these developmental stories begs for an account of responsibility in childhood," they wrote.
A complete representation of the company's profit plan could be created by extending the diagram through several organizational layers to account for every responsibility centre in the company.
Carson said he did not know Quibilah Shabazz personally but "I understand that the family has been upset that no one has really called Farrakhan to account for his responsibility" in Malcolm X's death.
More specifically, Hume argues that we cannot properly account for moral responsibility unless we acknowledge and describe the role that moral sentiment plays in this sphere.
Scanlon does not fix attention on the non-voluntary, but it is clear that the resources that he uses to account for moral responsibility for action (in at least one of the two senses that he distinguishes) provide sufficient conditions for an agent's being morally responsible for non-voluntary matters as well, such as unbidden racist thoughts, or lack of proper regard for those one loves.
For, on many accounts of responsibility, what I am responsible for depends on properties of the actual sequence of events and not on what I would have done in some counterfactual sequence of events in which my personality differs from the way it actually is.
The underlying idea here is that there is a sense in which the outcome of a (fair) lottery is a matter of luck for the person who participates in it whether or not he is responsible for it as some accounts of responsibility imply and others do not.
The panel's inquiry, he said, will be similar to investigations of the Pearl Harbor attack and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, both of which won national attention for their unsparing accounting of responsibility.
"Mr Gbagbo is brought to account for his individual responsibility in the attacks against civilians committed by forces acting on his behalf," the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said in a statement.
