The main problem with this definition is that it ascribes exclusive responsibility to health professionals.
As just noted, the open-ended character of research and innovation makes it virtually impossible to ascribe responsibility to an unknown event in this specific sense.
This is is sometimes true; however, with an identity as systemically privileged as being Christian is in the U.S. and with the gravity of historical nonsense perpetuated in the name of Jesus, it is not enough to simply ascribe responsibility to individuals in the same way it wouldn't be helpful to focus on individual white people in dismantling systemic racism.
While the above writers, who find collective responsibility to be a compelling moral construct in general, differ in particular respects, they all agree that it would be wrong to ascribe responsibility to dissenters or, in other words, that if one tries to fight harm one should not be held responsible for it.
See exploring Dilemmas, choices and responses to the Holocaust, which looks at the impulse to assign blame and ascribe responsibility for what happened as a way of making sense of the events and understanding why and how they happened.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who called the report a chilling document that described a war crime, declined at a United Nations news conference on Tuesday to ascribe responsibility for that attack, a position he has consistently held.
A recent European Union report on anti-Semitism in Europe ascribed responsibility for the rising tide of violence against Jews to "young, disaffected white Europeans," a finding that flew in the face of much hard, if politically inconvenient, evidence that it is for the most part the work of Muslim youths.
In a statement on Tuesday, Médecins Sans Frontières said doctors treated four patients exhibiting symptoms of exposure to chemical agents on Friday in Aleppo province, including two children, one aged three and a five-day-old baby, but did not ascribe responsibility for the attack.
And this raises the question of freedom, a necessary condition for ascribing responsibility and the heart of his philosophy.
Despite the debate, limited research has focused on the impact these interfaces have on how people ascribe responsibility to computing technology.
