meanings, and at least forward- and back-looking forms. The moral and
   forward-looking sense of responsibility is the sense in which one is
   responsible for achieving (or maintaining) a good result in some
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   or because others were unwilling to heed the engineer's warnings. The
   moral and backward-looking sense of responsibility is that in which a
   person or group deserves ethical evaluation for some act or outcome,
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   The moral sense of responsibility should not be confused with the
   causal sense of responsibility for some existing or past state of
   affairs. For example, when we say "the storm was responsible for three
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   storm. Storms do not have moral responsibilities, and are neither
   responsible or irresponsible in the moral sense. However, when a moral
   agent is causally responsible for some outcome, that is a reason to