Full Idea
Full responsibility is when evil-doers can fully foresee the harm that results, their victims have not provoked it, it violates the requirements of physical protection in a society, the action reflects character, and it is viciously motivated.
Gist of Idea
Responsibility is unprovoked foreseeable harm, against society, arising from vicious character
Source
John Kekes (The Human Condition [2010], 07.4)
Book Reference
Kekes,John: 'The Human Condition' [OUP 2010], p.159
A Reaction
[compressed] The point of this is to omit any reference to an explicit intention to perform an evil act. The Nazi Franz Stangl claimed that he never intended evil, but Kekes says that if true he is innocent, but the above definition makes him guilty.