The point of accepting and assigning responsibility, regarding the murder Scarlett Keeling, directly affects how we Goans see ourselves, as opposed to how others see us as Goans, or those who consider themselves Goans but are not living in Goa to suggest that the snuffing of her life, as well as teh terminated lives of murdered Goans having nothing to do with them. On the issue of responsibility in other areas affecting Goans directly; there have been regular points placing responsibility squarely in the Goan existential midst -- and rightly so. Assigning responsibility often has a way of make the most secure insecure, when one cannot control*** ones sense of existential bliss. Often our senses are hampered by deficiencies -- when narrow margins limit broader denotations. As my mother puts it, ***Kednaim zomnir'lo fattor utton mattear/toklear lagta/podtta. (Sometimes the stone lying on the ground rises and hits/whacks you on/upon the head). Anyway in a larger sense, I am not specifically pointing to individuals, or persons, but to Goans as one 'social group.'
Consider this text from Paul Tilllich. It adds to ideas of existence, and is from Vol II of Systematic Theology, Existence and the Christ, part III sec C, The Mark of Man's Estrangements and the Concept of Sin, Estrangement Collectively and Individually (ECI). My except from the section allows for a secular reading in ECI and has the power (conveying from one mind to others) to shed notions that exist on the idea of responsibility (to also include during/for riots). "And destiny is inseparably united with freedom. Therefore individual guilt participates in the creation of the universal destiny of mankind and in the creation of the special destiny of the social group to which a person belongs. The individual is not guilty of the crimes performed by members of his group if he himself did not commit them. The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of man a whole and in the destiny of their of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which the crimes happened. In this indirect sense, even the victims of tyranny in a nation are guilty of tyranny. But so are the subjects of other nations and the world and of mankind as a whole. For the destiny of falling under the power of tyranny, even a criminal tyranny, is a part of the universal destiny of man to be estranged from what he essentially is." venantius j pinto