2 Quotes About Onus Probandi

The word ‘responsibility’ is one of the most difficult to define when used in context with ‘free will’. When we are asked to accept responsibility for an act, we naturally feel the desire to defend the act/s, assert our innocence, and express that responsibility is not ours to bear. However, in order to truly understand what it means to be responsible for something, we must examine what ‘being responsible’ means. It is in this light that we can begin to understand why it is so troubling for us to accept responsibility.