ENGR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Caveat Emptor, Professional Liability Insurance, Strict Liability
12 Feb 2018
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Responsibility can be defined as responding to or answering for an action performed. All actions that we take have consequences either for ourselves or for other people who surround us. Answering or accounting for the consequences of ones actions is what is implied by responsibility. In some situations, the responsibility for the action might be less because of the nature of circumstances. A key aspect associated with thinking about responsibility is the concept of role. A role (especially a social role) is a position that an individual holds. A few such common roles are parent, student, professor, engineer, doctor, etc. The idea of role is crucial to understand responsibility. Because if a person fills a role in society, then society has expectations about how that person should act in that role. Individuals are held responsible when they do not meet the expectations of the role they fill in society.
