You are not at fault, if you are a good parent, or if you maintain your house well.

So if the child breaks the law, or damages something, if the house has a weakness not known but someone gets injured, you are responsible.

But the due dilligence, such as disciplining, teaching, and trying to instill good values in a child, or inspecting and maintaining your house, are key.

With a democracy, participating, voting, being an activist on vital matters, working to keep your democracy responsible and behaving correctly is that same due diligence.

We're always responsible, but are we at fault? Did we do our best?

Or did we decide that taking care of the child was too much bother, and disappear from their lives?

Did we try, at least?

And twitter posts, facebook this and that don't count here.

Because, would that be how you raise a child? Deriding them on twitter? Yelling at other parents because it was their fault?