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Indeed Cane states: "historic responsibility finds its role and meaning only in responding to nonfulfillment of prospective responsibilities" (2002, p. 35).
But one can also consider their prospective responsibilities (before the barrister was shot); namely, to safeguard the lives of bystanders, relatives, and the police, and to maintain law and order.
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Prospective responsibility therefore emphasises the (pro active dimension of responsibility that is captured by the idea of virtue-responsibility.
There is retrospective responsibility, visible in blaming and liability, and prospective responsibility, important because we are creating futures all the time (Rip [1981], Grinbaum & Grove [2013]).
In this sense, the idea of prospective responsibility appears to be more complex than that of a duty as it includes dimensions that are typically ethical (as capacity, virtue, moral obligation) as well.
Prospective Responsibility is forward-looking, future-oriented, and essentially linked to the dimensions of assumption and exercise of responsibility, connected with the ideas of performing roles and tasks both by complying with the duties associated to them, but also going beyond what is mandated and when the contents of duties and tasks cannot be established in advance.
Although legal commentaries tend to focus on retrospective responsibility, Cane (2002) argues that prospective responsibility is equally important.
This combination of retrospective and prospective responsibility is intuitively plausible and captures participants' judgments in our empirical studies.
Prospective responsibility concerns duties and obligations for future events: the prevention of bad outcomes and the production of good outcomes (Cane, 2002).
As we shall see, prospective responsibility reflects different possible ways in which one can be pivotal, and as such is closely related to the multiple-paths model.
However, as discussed later in this article, the notion of prospective responsibility emerges as an important factor in people's intuitive attributions, even when they are making purely retrospective judgments.
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