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Actually, this quote is the epitome of
BS, the idea that our brains and inbornness are somehow not
contributing much and the rational parts of our
decision-making are the key players in decision-making.
Not only decision-making, but also decision-making
under load, emotional stress, is relying on the concept of
emotional intelligence.
While these topics of responsibility, for
me, require a significant amount of context, I have shared
some already in "Responsibility" as a TPOV.
The bottom line as I discuss Shared
Responsibility, as I see it now, is summarized here in 10
Talking Points:
1) People are not fully responsible for
their decisions, as they are in fact made from unconscious
inbornness, complete with biases and prejudices coupled by
cultural interchange, including the conditions under which
those decisions appear to be made.
2) As a consequence, society and the
person are joint owners of responsibility because as the
"interesting" quote above notes, decisions are made fully as
part of the interactions between people, even though the
author discounts any affect from our brains, or so it seems
(the quote could be out of context).
3) The question, for me, remaining
unanswered, is who owns the accountability for our
actions?
4) Those who behave easily within the
confines of societies’ boundaries, or who make the rules, are
almost always in agreement that people should respect
societies’ laws and requirements. All those who
don't should be penalized in some form.
5) The growing numbers of inmates in "tight"
societies are testament that more and more people are finding
it difficult to always function inside these laws and
requirements.
6) It's clear to me, that we are unclear
about who and how people should be held accountable when in
fact, it's clear that societal interchange AND our inbornness,
rather than just social interchange are responsible.
7) How do we share this responsibility
among people who may not have much control (I would say that
almost no one has control over either our inbornness, or
biases emergent from those filters, unless control over these
things is wired into the inbornness), especially in triggered
conditions where we are pressed into the gray areas of
societal control, and our own unconscious inbornness.
Example:
A high vengeance person will respond much
differently in a "loaded" condition than one who is not.
And to keep this simple, it requires a significant
amount of control, many times greater (whether provided by
awareness, or social scaffolding) for the person disposed to
combativeness, than one who is motivated away from
competition.
In the same vein, it is MUCH easier for
the high vengeance person to be aggressive in contact sports,
than it would be for one who is not motivated to
competitiveness, vindictiveness or combat.
In the latter situation, we "control", to
most extent, the damage created by controlled combat with game
scaffolding, penalties, and other "brute" force.
In the former, a person beating to death
someone who "wronged" them is deemed irresponsible, and the
person is held accountable by law.
8) I'm not suggesting that we don't hold
people accountable for their acts, but the assignment of
responsibility has to be done carefully, in my opinion.
The question of the death penalty is the hardest
question, and in my view, it is impossible to resort to the
death penalty, even when death is the result of the social
interchange. Because people can NEVER be
held completely responsible for their acts under duress, as
part of that responsibility lies in things they can't control.
Society has a serious dilemma.
9) Who is responsible, and who is held
accountable? This is where it gets very
unclear about who and how much is the accountability and
responsibility for one's acts, if Shared Responsibility is
agreed? I find it impossible not to agree that
we all have shared responsibility, even if it is our part in
society to help pay for those systems that create the
necessary scaffolding for shared responsibility... And
ultimately for shared accountability to live side by side.
10) In a just society, in full knowledge
of FLOW, we have little choice but to construct a system of
accountabilities and responsibilities that are shared.
We take into full account the concepts of FLOW, where
we are not fully in control of everything that occurs in
social interchange. We, personally, can't be
held 100% accountable, because we are not 100% responsible for
things that are outside of our control.
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