: While responsibility might be following a community norm, responsibleness is discovering what you ought to do through your own conscience.
: It is the literal "ability to respond" with awareness and wisdom rather than reacting impulsively. responsibleness
Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, famously argued that freedom is only half of the story. Without responsibleness, freedom risks degenerating into "mere arbitrariness". : While responsibility might be following a community