They both address issues of guilt and grief and responsibility; even more intriguingly, they set the individual conscience against the interfering machinations of state law.
The diminution of employers' responsibilities is even more acute in emerging markets and developing countries, where large companies often have no contractual responsibilities to workers.
Allowing the crisis to continue will cost the state dearly in the long term, while those profiting will, as in 2008, do everything they can to avoid accepting responsibility and, even more fiercely, to avoid losing a penny of profit.
I like the moral position behind the concept, which holds simultaneously that the universe is bad and capricious and that personal responsibility is even more important as a result.
It carries a lot of responsibility, and even more so given that Tuesday's flight will be only the second accelerated rendezvous with the station.
Americans have long abrogated their personal responsibility and, even more profoundly, their belief in being able to care for their own health and well-being.
Taking responsibility is even more rare, with lawyers, coaches, and handlers prepared to rationalize bad behavior with a variety of excuses.
Even the head of the Treasury is now worried that his department has become too inexperienced and too shrunken to discharge its responsibilities – a reality even more marked at the Department for Transport where there is a fresh secretary of state and permanent secretary almost every year.
This abdication of responsibility has been even more remarkable than the president's assumption of new powers.
The good MP is all for lowering the age of criminal responsibility and dragging even more children before adult courts: 'People take the view that if they are old enough to commit the crime, they are old enough to take responsibility.' British society has become so morally distanced from childhood that it has lost the ability to make a moral distinction between it and adulthood.
