Ever since Robert Adams published his famous 1985 paper, "Involuntary Sins," some have been convinced that moral responsibility does not require free will or free action since it does not even require anything voluntary at all.
I don't want anything at all.
Recommended practices by industry groups such as the American Petroleum Institute "are simply that — they make recommendations but don't require anything," said Nancy Leveson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who served as a senior adviser to the presidential commission.
If you require anything, the tender entity committee looks at it and approves it, then you go and invite bids, the bids come in, you open the bids in front of the public, and after that a committee is formed to evaluate the tenders, after evaluation, the tenders go to the tender entity committee for final approval… and a supplier is selected (Health Services Administrator).
Californian law, like Scottish, requires anything carrying that holy label to be at least three years old.
An understanding of society and social phenomena, of course, may not require anything akin to the concept of law at issue in the philosophical debates.
Or at least a job that requires anything resembling work.
But with the exception of a few jurisdictions, the "no duty" rule remains largely the same as it was famously described by William L. Prosser, the dean of American tort law: "The expert swimmer, with a boat and a rope at hand, who sees another drowning before his eyes, is not required to do anything at all about it, but may sit on the dock, smoke his cigarette, and watch the man drown".
"We want to formally retire the notion that a Google+ membership is required for anything at Google… other than using Google+ itself," he added.
After all, having a gun can present a wide range of problems that wouldn't require me to do anything wrong at all.
