Responsibility

A situation where the responsibility may fall on either person is when a patient takes a medicine and they have a reaction. Is it the persons fault for taking a medication that they may have a reaction to, or is it the company’s fault for not testing the product well enough and labeling the side effects? I feel that this is the individuals fault. While I know that sometimes bad things happen and can not be prevented, this could have. Knowing what causes reactions in one self is the individual’s responsibility.

I define who has responsibility by the one who could have prevented it. In the examples given, the person who has faulty brakes is the one responsible even though the other person is the one who had the accident. The first person had the responsibility to have a safe vehicle for the other to drive. If it is a persons fault when something bad happens then they need to take responsibility for it. The American society has a habit of pushing things off and honesty has become rare.  

When something bad happens and I am involved, I look at who was doing what. If I was supposed to wash the dishes and it never got done than it was my fault. If my mom told my brother to tell me to do the dishes and I never got the message, than it is not my fault. I would have done the dishes if I was asked, but I was never asked because my brother never relayed the message. In this case it is his fault. He was asked to do something and did not do it and as I result I did not do what I was asked to do.