Comment by Papazsazsa
16 hours ago
Taking responsibility for a mistake is neither meaningless nor empty, but honorable. The very essence of humanity.
16 hours ago
Taking responsibility for a mistake is neither meaningless nor empty, but honorable. The very essence of humanity.
It makes no sense, it is used/abused by politicians and corporations all the time. There are no consequences for the responsible party (of course, if there were then this phrase would not be abused so much)
It is honourable but it is also linguistic abuse that drains the phrase of its full semantic meaning. “Take full responsibility” must remain a stricture of the highest regard. He is not fully responsible nor should he be held to be nor should we demand that he be and most importantly we must not dilute that phrase of its full semantic import, or else we shall have to come up with another one once this one is devalued to mean essentially nothing beyond “I fucked up in good faith and with a lack of information that was concealed for me for decisions taken by others in good faith way upstream of myself”.
It's words vs. action, and I couldn't care less about anyone's words.
And honor is in the action, dishonor in the words.