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funtasticsakura (92)12 months ago

What's your thoughts of that?My sister always tells me about this,i'm wondering alaso if this two words differ.We know that duties are the things we need to do because we are ought to do so.Responsibilities are also things that we are suppose to do!!I'm kinda confuse in what matter they differ each other.Can someone tell me about this?

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 79/100. philjas (925)   ranked 1,464 out of 3,050 in thinker   12 months ago

I think basically the two words mean the same thing, but I'd personally say they differ in that duty is assigned to you (say your job, for example), whereas responsibility is not really being forced on you by a higher authority, it's just the things you know or SHOULD know you should be doing.


funtasticsakura (92)  12 months ago

hi philjas!!you say that duty is like for a job that you should do?ah ok it's in the authority?In somehow i think that it's the same but if we analyze we see that it's not actually the same.Thanks for your response!!

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2. stoa2008 (58)   12 months ago

I remember a similar issue came up once in a lecture by Robert LeFevre. He tried to make the distinction between the words "responsibility" and "obligation". He pointed out that although the two had come to mean almost the same thing, they didn't always. The difference, he claimed, is in the tense.

Responsibility, he claimed, was a past tense word. To be responsible for something is to have caused a given effect. It's sort of like saying, "you had/were assigned the power over X, therefore, whatever happened with X is due to you"

Obligation, he claimed, is future tense. It is something that we choose. If you have an obligation to X then in the future you will be "responsible" for X.


funtasticsakura (92)  12 months ago

hi there stoa!!!wow it's nice of you to have an information like that.I did'nt knew that responsibility is a past tense and obligation is a future tense!!But either i understood the things,now i would not be confused with this two.Thanks for your informative response!!

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3. myLot reputation of 95/100. crazyoverpurple (2407)   ranked 72 out of 3,050 in thinker   12 months ago

I think duty is something you do for or something that is due others. For example, it's the duty of the parents to take care of their children. Or you have a duty to work on the job assigned to you by your boss. It's your duty to sweep the floor, throw the garbage, etc. Whereas responsibility is something you hold yourself accountable for.


funtasticsakura (92)  12 months ago

hi crazyoverpurple!!!yah i've thought that it's so!!now i know that duty is really differ from responsibility.Thanks for your response!!

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4. myLot reputation of 80/100. jaffna (670)   ranked 2,214 out of 3,050 in thinker   12 months ago

they are diferent...duties are things that we are suppose to do ...like children has their duties to study...but responsibility covers all the people around us...e.g:it's the responsibility of my class leader to submit all of our notes...these words seem to have the same meaning but they are different

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