I want to revisit Rasczak's question about choice and responsibility, but from a different perspective.

I think we all would agree that accountability and choice should be proportional. The relationship between choice and accountability goes two ways:

1. If you make the choice, you are accountable for the consequences.

2. If you do not make the choice, you should NOT be accountable for the consequences.

Now, I'm taking 1 and 2 above as a given, but feel free to argue those if you wish.

But, granted 1 and 2, my question is this: does a person have to be SOLELY accountable for ALL the consequences of ALL their choices, or should society take some of the burden if the consequences are extremely heavy, or seemingly out of proportion with the level of choice?