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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8703011.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %LIMITS TO PATERNALISTIC RESPONSIBILITY 870301 There are limits to responsibility. It is reasonable to hold someone responsible for the consequences of an action if it is obvious to most all people what natural consequences will inevitably follow the given action; e.g., in pulling the trigger of a loaded gun when it is pointed at someone's head. It is not reasonable to hold someone responsible for the consequences of an action when there is strong disagreement among informed people before the action regarding what the natural consequences of the action might be; e.g., a doctor prescribing drug "A" rather than drug "B" for a strange and unfamiliar medical condition. The nature of responsibility thus depends upon the level of certainty regarding the natural consequences of alternative courses of action. It is helpful to encourage people to respect and follow some general guidelines regarding attitudes, desires, interests, goals. It is more difficult to generate prescriptions which say what actions should be chosen in vaguely defined circumstances within which people's fears, hopes, aspirations and desires play major roles. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================