[lojban] Re: Archivist/Founders: Clarification of "fuzme", please.

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 10/10/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> Heard on IRC:
>
>    I read {fuzme} as "x1 is tasked with/supposed to bring about x2
>    (according to authority x3)" (think baupla fuzykamni), not "x1
>    is the one who actually did x2"
>
> I think that's unlikely, because if it was "tasked with", bilga
> would be wholly redundant, but I'd like to hear the official word.
>
> Whichever it is, I'll be updating the jbovlaste definition
> accordingly.

I think it can't just be "x1 is the one who actually did x2", because x2
need not be in the past, and besides you can actually do things
without being responsible for them, and also you can be responsible
for things you did not actually do yourself.

One difference with {bilga} is that once you have done what you
are obliged to do, your obligation is over, whereas responsibility
for something persists once it's done. As a result of this, an obligation
cannot be imposed after the fact, whereas responsibility could (even
though it may be unfair to do so).

An obligation is something you are required to do.
A responsibility is something you are required to answer for.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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