| Ethics and the Professions | Notes | This is not a substitute for coming to class | Richard Lee |
| Philosophy 3103 | Copyright © 2009, Richard Lee | Summer 2009 | |
Assumption: For any wrongdoing there is a fixed amount of responsibility to be spread around.
I call this the Reponsibility Pie Assumption, because it presumes that responsibility is like a pie: a fixed amount to be divided up and given out.
So, for example, it is sometimes thought that if a victim of rape is partly responsible for what happened (e.g. by wearing "provocative" clothing), then the rapist is less responsible.