DEFINITION OF RESPONSIBILITY


Meaning of Responsibility

By Bob Stewart

The meaning of responsibility

"If you accept responsibility for something  that has happened, you agree that you  caused it, or were to blame." Collins School Dictionary

If a 16-year-old girl asks her 19-year-old boyfriend Charley to kill her family, then who is responsible for Charley's actions? Was it Charley or his 16-year-old girlfriend?

Honestly, I believe that Erin took a greater percentage of the blame for her family tragedy than szhe should have. It is fair enough for Erin to take responsibility for her part which has done but not take the entire blame.

When Erin's co-accused were being questioned they all pointed the finger at Erin and told the investigating officer that it wa her idea but did the investigating officer not think to ask them whether they thought this was all a bad idea.

Getting back to responsibility. If someone in an online troll tells someone to kill themselves and they do just that then wouldn't the troller be guilty of murder if the same kind of reasoning that found Erin guilty was applied.

Here is what I believe.

I believe that Erin has taken more responsibility for this tragedy than she should have. She is certainly not responsible for the part that her co-accuser's played in her family tragedy.

One just wonders how Erin's co-accused think about all this now that they have had ten years to reflect on what they have done? It is a pity we have not heard their side of the story.

What do other people think about this? I would be interested to hear about it.

 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

FINDING A SCAPEGOAT

Finding a Scapegoat You have heard the expression, "blaming the butler," well what this means is that when something has gone wrong there has always got to be a scapegoat. It lets other people off the hook and it is basically saying that "such and such wve happened if you had not done this or that or said such and such." In 2007, 16-year-old   Erin Caffey was found guilty of the murder of her mother and two younger sibling brothers. she actually did not kill them. Her then boyfriend of the time who was aged 18 and his associate did the killing while Erin and the girlfriend of the associate waiting in the car. It was all Erin's idea because her parents kept splitting up her relationships. Erin's Dad survived the massacre with I believe 11 gunshot wounds and he was able to identify the perpetrators. Unknown to him was that his own daughter Erin was behind the attack. The four were being questioned individually and the three older ones all...
Read more

Connecting with the Right Company

He who walks with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools will be destroyed. Proverbs 13:30 Written by Bob Stewart The people you spend most of your time with will influence how your life turns out. Often circumstances are such that people end up with company that is not ideal. It is not uncommon for people to be born into a drug and crimefree atmosphere. These are situations which are beyond the control of these people. But others end up in bad company in one way or another and in this post I am going to give some examples of how one can be controlled and how others can take advantage of this. There is a link between desires and fears. They basically feed off one another. An addict who desires drugs has the fear of not being supplied with drugs. The addict is then controlled by the supplier. In this way teenagers can be taken advantage of and are unable to severe ties with those who are abusing them. Love or lust is another desire which has its fears. The fear ...
Read more

Almost Four Years

Campaign for Erin Caffey almost four years on September 2021 Written by Robert A. Stewart It has been four years since I watched a program presented by Pier Morgan. He did a series on women who are convicted of murder and the first program I watched was about a lady from Texas. Her name is Erin Caffey who at the time the program the filmed in 2014 was aged 24 but was just 16 when she committed a crime which was considered barbaric even by America's standards. For those who are unaware of the crime details you can find a video on youtube by typing in Erin Caffey into the search engine or doing a google search. After watching the program I decided to go on a letter writing campaign for Erin because I firmly believe that as barbaric as the crime seems, Erin was only 16. She was the youngest of the quartet and the only one of the four who was a minor at the time of the crime, therefore, the balance of responsibility for the crime should have fallen on the older ones. That despite the f...
Read more