ABSTRACT
This chapter has been about the individual's moral responsibility for culpable mistakes or, in legal terms, for ones' recklessness and negligence. It retains some moral responsibility regardless of whether it was a mistake or an accident. The guiding thought is that the mistake arose out of some prior defect of ignorance, inattention or carelessness to a degree short of what the reasonable person should know, to take care of in the same type of situation. Culpable mistakes can be divided into two kinds with a fuzzy border. First, Recklessness is when one is aware of the risks but wilfully choose to disregard them. Second, negligence is when one is not aware of the risks. The one more category of mistake is strict liability, a legal term, and involves holding the agent legally responsible for a harmful act regardless of his state of mind. It involves the rejection of all possible excuses.
