The government justifies its austerity programme on the grounds of responsibility: people must take responsibility for their own lives, rather than relying on the state; local authorities must take responsibility for their spending.
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The complexities concern the incidence of responsibility, the grounds of responsibility, the items between which causal connection must be demonstrated, and the variety of relationships that can in some sense be regarded as causal.
The existence of this wide spectrum of causal or near-causal grounds of responsibility recognised in law and morality raises the question whether any uniform theory of causation is capable of accounting for all of them.
Failing to help or provide opportunities to others by advising, warning, informing or rescuing them or supplying them with agreed goods and services are other grounds of responsibility for negative agency that, again, are at least analogous to causal relationships.
In law the main grounds of responsibility for harm are therefore (i) an agent's personal responsibility for causing harm and (ii) a person's responsibility arising from the fact that he, she or it bears the risk of having to answer in legal proceedings for the harm in question.
As regards the grounds of responsibility it is important to grasp that for a person to cause harm or loss to another (the term 'harm' will be used for short) is in law neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of being legally responsible for the harm.
In these instances the ground of responsibility is, from the point of view of the person held responsible, not that he, she or it has caused harm but that they bear the risk that some other person, animal, thing or process may cause harm.
This can be done either by an appeal to intuitive notions of responsibility or by recourse to an alternative ground of responsibility based on risk.
Fowkes denied murdering Hatch but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Telling was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and jailed for life.
