Responsibility

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Responsibility (from Latinrespondere "respond, answer to, promise in return") is the ability of man to account for the consequences of their own actions (personal responsibility) or those of others, carried out with conscious intent, and to bear the associated consequences. [[Philosophically, moral responsibility means deserving praise, blame, reward or punishment for an action or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations. Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a major concern of ethics. The basis for this is an emotionally predisposed, subconsciously or semi-consciously felt sense of responsibility, which increases to a sense of responsibility when it is fully raised to consciousness by clear thinking.