Liability and Accountability

Assignment Details

When a reporter makes a mistake in a magazine article by
misidentifying a fact, the magazine can run a correction. However, if a
health care worker makes a mistake by misidentifying a patient’s
symptoms or by giving an incorrect dosage, someone can get hurt or even
die. Accountability and responsibility can be very different across
different professions. Have you stopped to consider if this is fair?
Should we hold people in certain professions to higher standards of
legal accountability and responsibility? Choose a position, and discuss
your answer:

• FOR argument: Yes, we should hold people in certain
  professions to higher standards of legal accountability and
  responsibility. Why do you believe so? What professions do you believe
  should be held to a higher accountability standard, and why?
• AGAINST argument: No, we should not hold
  people in certain professions to higher standards of legal
  accountability and responsibility. Why do you believe not? Is there any
  situation in which you would be inclined to change your argument?