What is the relationship between responsibility and freedom?

Answer 1

If you don't have free will, you are being controlled and thus have no choice in what you do. In this case, you can't hold responsibility for your actions.

Answer 2

Great question. I don't have the answer, but just a thought. What makes either one positive is the other. Responsibility without freedom is worthless and freedom without responsibility is dangerous.

Answer 3

To have freedom ie. the ability to do what you want in life comes responsibility. One can't drink & drive. One can't be a murderer or a rapist. So we will never have true freedom. Its an illusion or a philosophical argument.

Answer 4

Responsibility orientates freedom to a particular end, and through this orientation rescues the exercise of our freedom from becoming itself, an experience of tyrrany.

Answer 5

When you have freedom, it is your responsibility not to abuse it and not to use your freedom as an excuse to tread on the rights of others. Unfortunately, it seems that fewer people make that connection these days.

I like what Letta G said, too.

Answer 6

Total freedom, equals total responsibility.

Answer 7

Freedom is the absence of obligation. So it seems to me that it is an opposite of responsibility. Responsibility being the burden of obligation.

Answer 8

freedom relies on responsibly

Answer 9

If you own responsibilty for what you have created, your life, you will also feel you can do something about it, if you don''t like it. If you deny responsibiltiy you will perceive yourself as a helpless victim.
I believe you can see which one is freedom.

Answer 10

You are free to do what you want..but if you wish NOT to experience consequences given to you by society, then you will act responsibly.