One small anecdote will round out this week’s discussion on responsibility. When one of my children was small s/he said to me, while doing something clearly against the rules, “Ima (Mom), don’t see.”
Awareness creates responsibility. It follows that if you want to be responsible you will try to become more aware. For example, you will want to find out as much as you possibly can about the person you’re encountering, what makes them feel good and what upsets them, so that you can adjust your behavior accordingly. If you don’t want to take responsibility, you will try to pretend to be unaware, and you will certainly pretend that the authority to whom you are responsible is unaware.
Alternatively we can put it this way: Sometimes the higher value to which you are responsible is awareness itself: the responsibility to make yourself aware.