First, we know that government has a threshold responsibility to secure our borders and enforce the law.
On one hand, a biological predisposition suggests that a person is likely to be dangerous in the future and should get a longer sentence; on the other, it implies a lower threshold of responsibility.
It's a long bow for the government to say that what is alleged is not its doing or responsibility, yet ultimately that threshold issue will have to be decided by the Victorian Supreme Court, and that may not be till the middle of next year.
Are there thresholds of responsibility, for instance, that can be determined by studying neural circuits?
This became known as the "effective control" test, and sets a high threshold for state responsibility.
At least one protest group, Dream for Darfur, led by the actress Mia Farrow, continues to hold some feet to the fire: on Friday her organization plans to stage protests against four Olympics sponsors that it says have not passed certain thresholds for corporate responsibility.
In my experience, many parents feel the threshold for nanny tax responsibility is too low.
When is that responsibility triggered, and what is the threshold that justifies intervention, up to and including the use of force?
Countries would retain national responsibility for debt above the 60% threshold, which the authors dubbed "red" (as opposed to the "blue" Eurobonds).
Anxiety or dread (Angest) is the presentiment of this terrible responsibility when the individual stands at the threshold of momentous existential choice.
Still, the candidates' plans provide a look at priorities and a test of their ability to meet what has emerged as a threshold standard for good governance: fiscal responsibility.
