1/We assign responsibility to people as a function of how much we think that responsibility can change their behavior. Ill behaved children and the mentally ill? Our responsibility judgment 'passes through' the individual into the parents, or to shitty brain builds.
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3/People's choices are a result of concrete things. You pass responsibility through the shitty child to their parents, but decide not to pass responsibility through them to *their* shitty parents. Why? Decisions like these are heavily decided by cultural norms, and-
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4/you can find different cultural agreements about where the responsibility gets placed. Some cultures don't pass responsibility through shitty children at all, and instead blame the child completely for all of its actions. Conservatives tend to do less responsibility
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5/pass-through; the individual gets to be responsible. Liberals tend to pass-through a lot; there are reasons for behavior and we shouldn't blame you. We pass through responsibility way more for women, who get lighter prison sentences for the same crimes and have issues with
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6/sex and body image passed through to culture/men. We let responsibility stop with men, who get mocked if they support stuff like
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7/ Also why socialism tends to be more female-supported - for women and socialism, responsibility passes through "you" into society or authority or whatever. But if you look around, you can see constantly little decisions for where to let the responsibility land, all the time
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8/and for me it's seeming increasingly weirder, and more revealing of our incentives, where we want to focus blame (and power!), and ultimately an arbitrary tool used to guide social norms for deeper purposes.
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I'm considering four types, where the types are determined by inclination to pass through responsibilities for others, and separately for themselves. What are those types?
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