I confess a lot of my antipathy for this word comes from my fundie past, where in context it meant "Having to periodically confess to your fellow teens every week if you'd swore or looked at porn"https://twitter.com/marysuewriter/status/1379121905785921536 …
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Anyway, lurid stories aside, "accountability" as a word seems to me to be this escalation from the idea of "responsibility" It's a question-begging word - it asserts right away that I have to answer to you, specifically, for any wrongdoing I commit
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Without saying exactly why it's any of your business - are you the person I harmed, do you have any relationship with me, do I owe you anything
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Hence the creepiness of Christians telling teenagers to just "hold each other accountable" as a way to make you a better person without thinking but the consequences Who holds the accountability partners accountable
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Damn, that’s basically a modern updating of the old story about the Spartan boy and the fox.
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