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Essay on Cause and Effect
In philosophy, a consideration of the connection between cause and effect is usually referred to as the 'causal relationship'. If an event is assumed to have a cause, two important questions arise: what is the relationship between cause and effect, and must it follow that every event is caused? The Scottish philosopher David Hume considered these questions to be, in principle, unanswerable.
Being responsible involves being held accountable for a certain task. A police officer, for example, is responsible for upholding the law. It is expected that he or she will do so and if not, the officer will be held accountable and disciplinary action may be taken. In a similar way, owning a pet involves taking on various responsibilities - feeding and watering it; giving it clean accommodation of appropriate size; and exercising it - failure to do so could cause the animal to become ill and die.
In life people are responsible for a number of things. As we get older the number of responsibilities we have increases and so do the consequences for failing to fulfill our responsibilities. A baby has no responsibility for anything. Babies do not know what they are doing; they do not know the difference between right and wrong, and therefore they cannot be made to answer for what they do.
In society there are written laws that define those things that are not acceptable. If a person drives over the speed limit they could be arrested and held responsible for breaking the law. If a person strikes another person they can be arrested and charged with assault. In addition there are a number of unwritten laws, which are socially considered to be unacceptable - it is socially unacceptable to play music at the highest volume in the early hours of the morning as neighbors will find such actions intolerable and consequences may follow.............
