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                              %RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR 860123

     Is it responsible behavior to hold people responsible
for  the  consequences  of their actions?    What  if  the
consequences  involve  emotions;   the emotions  of  other
people, their own emotions?   What are the short and long-
term  consequences  of believing and acting as if  it  was
responsible behavior to  hold  people  responsible for all
the emotions occasioned by  holding people responsible for
emotions  occasioned by  some  behavior?  How far can  the
chain of responsibility be responsibly extended?   To what
kinds of occasions and consequences?

     Are  emotions the kinds of consequences for which  it
is helpful,  integrative, to hold people responsible?  Are
thoughts?    Fantasies?    Visions?   For whose  reflexive
responses?  For those people beyond affective contact?

     How  can responsibility be responsibly defined?    In
what way is it responsible to hold people responsible  for
how they define and use the concept of responsibility?  By
what  authority?    According  to  what  ideals,   values,
ultimate goals?  According to whose judgment?

     Is  it responsible to hold people responsible  beyond
explicit   promises   and  legally   binding   contractual
agreements?   In promoting what ideals,  values,  ultimate
consequences?  Is responsibility defined by the person who
is responsible?   By others?  Jointly,  mutually?   In any
case, what abuses exist in using such definitions?

                                                                                                                               
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