Please define the term "duty" & the term "responsibility", also differenciate between the two terms.

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Answer 1

Duty refers to what is DUE to others. For example, parents have the duty to care for their children and teachers have the duty to bring out the best in their pupils.

Responsibility is to hold ourselves accountable. It also recognizes that if we take credit for our successes, we must take responsibility for our failures. Of course, we cannot be held responsible for situations beyond our control, but we are responsible for the way we act during such situations.

Answer 2

Just a guess. Duty implies an obligation with closure. Responsibility implies something 27/7/365.

Answer 3

Duty is something you have to do, it's not a mater of choice. It is something imposed on you.

Responsibility is something you have valunteer to do and thus are obligated to do it. Example: It is my responsibility to take care of my 5 year old son, but it was my choice to have him in the first place, thus I imposed it on my self.

There difference is Duty is not a matter of choice, while responsibility is something you chose to have.

Answer 4

Well, I suppose it's whenever you feel justified with; but I don't feel justified, so I don't think I give anybody a downer.

(So there's no responsibility 'cause I don't …….)

I'm only responsible for my own attitude; and I have a duty to other people not to lay a downer on them. That's my own choice--I picked that duty up--nobody laid it on me, I chose it for myself--that is that I don't want to lay something on somebody else.

(We have a choice also…..)

We have a choice to pick out "duties." But I'm "responsible" for me. You can't drink a glass of water for me. You can't eat a sandwich for me. You could cook a beautiful steak and put it in front of me, but you can't eat it for me, is that correct? And you can't go to the bathroom for me. So I'm "responsible" for all that. I'm responsible for how I feel. You can't think for me. You can't act for me--you can't do any of those things.

Now---we pick up duties for other people. That's a free choice. I did it or I did not. I can also lay the "duties" down. Again, it's a free choice, ok? And I don't choose to keep some "duty" for eternity--that's my own choice; and I was responsible for accepting the duty, nobody laid it on me. I did that on my own.

"Duty" and "responsibility" are two different things. Duty is what you would have for whoever you want to do it--your mother, your friends, or both, a job, Life whatever you wanted to. But you can pick it up and lay it down.

Responsible is what you are for yourself whether you like it or not.