Responsibility for Actions

December 20, 2024

It turns out that people feel more responsibility for actions than for inactions. Therefore, if one is destined to make a mistake, it is better to do nothing at all than to do it incorrectly. It turns out that a person is inclined to view inaction as passivity: I did nothing. And since he did nothing, he feels less responsible for the outcome. It seems to us that if one is destined to make a mistake, it is better to do nothing than to do something incorrectly.