Supporting · Corrective
Responsibility Follows Leverage
The greater a person's or institution's capacity to shape outcomes, prevent harm, benefit from a system, or repair consequences, the greater its responsibility.
Collective explanations can dissolve responsibility, while individual blame can conceal unequal power and structural production. - Leverage is uneven - Blame and collectivity can both obscure capacity The greater a person's or institution's capacity to shape outcomes, prevent harm, benefit from a system, or repair consequences, the greater its responsibility.
Problem
Collective explanations can dissolve responsibility, while individual blame can conceal unequal power and structural production.
Forces
- Leverage is uneven
- Blame and collectivity can both obscure capacity
Observation
The greater a person's or institution's capacity to shape outcomes, prevent harm, benefit from a system, or repair consequences, the greater its responsibility.
Pattern language
- Supporting pattern
- Corrective dynamic — tends to restore contact with reality
- Organizing force: Power
- Master pattern: Reality Answers Back
At a glance
What it does
The greater a person's or institution's capacity to shape outcomes, prevent harm, benefit from a system, or repair consequences, the greater its responsibility.
Why it matters
Collective explanations can dissolve responsibility, while individual blame can conceal unequal power and structural production.
Counterbalance
Assign responsibility according to leverage, knowledge, freedom of action, benefit, and capacity to prevent or repair harm
Counterbalances
- Assign responsibility according to leverage, knowledge, freedom of action, benefit, and capacity to prevent or repair harm
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Outgoing dynamics1 relationship
expresses
Corrective dynamic: how systems remain open to reality answering back.
Incoming dynamics2 relationships
intensifies
Authority formed by attention increases the leverage that responsibility must follow.