The moral demands and potential for adverse treatment associated with holding others responsible are part of our accountability practices, and these features raise issues of fairness that do not arise in the context of determining whether behavior is attributable to an agent.
The principle that people should be treated justly and equally, without bias or favoritism.
Moral demands(as used in ethics)
Obligations or duties that ethics places on how we should treat and judge other people.
agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
However, Watson agrees with Wolf that the above story of responsibility is incomplete: there is more to responsibility than attributing actions to agents. In addition, we hold agents responsible for their behavior, which “is not just a matter of the relation of an individual to her behavior” (Watson 1996 [2004: 262]). When we hold responsible, we also “demand (require) certain conduct from one another and respond adversely to one another’s failures to comply with these demands” (Watson 1996 [2004: 262]). The moral demands, and potential for adverse treatment, associated with holding others res...