09-07-2015, 02:18 AM
Say you drink until you black out, then do something stupid and embarrassing. Are you responsible for your actions even if you have no memory? Is the choice to follow through with the activity of drinking enough to establish responsibility?
What if this pattern continues, like an addiction?
Or, how about if someone takes the life of someone else and then gets in an action and becomes an amnesiac. Are they still responsible for their previous actions?
I could also frame it completely differently. A man is journeying through the woods. He is following the signs but inevitably becomes very lost and cannot find his way back for days, weeks or months even. When he returns he is thought to be dead, his lover has moved on and his house and things have been sold. Is he responsible for his tragedy, despite at the outset he had no intention to get lost?
What if this pattern continues, like an addiction?
Or, how about if someone takes the life of someone else and then gets in an action and becomes an amnesiac. Are they still responsible for their previous actions?
I could also frame it completely differently. A man is journeying through the woods. He is following the signs but inevitably becomes very lost and cannot find his way back for days, weeks or months even. When he returns he is thought to be dead, his lover has moved on and his house and things have been sold. Is he responsible for his tragedy, despite at the outset he had no intention to get lost?
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