"The aim of assigning responsibility is to make [man] different from what he is or might be. If we say that a person is responsible for the consequences of an action, this is not a statement of fact or an assertion of causation. .. Rather the statement .. aims at making his actions different from what they would be if he did not believe it to be true. We assign responsibility to a man, not in order to say that as he was he might have acted differently, but in order to make him different." - Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty




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