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To do correct risk assessment just to make it through everyday life, though, it seems like a person needs professional-level training in at least the following subjects:
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You don't need to be able to do correct risk assessment to be responsible.
Let's say a politican favors minimum wage. He has no clue about the effects of minimum wage on employement and is therefore unable to do a correct risk assessment of whether the minimum wage policy harm employement.
Then he pushes for the minimum wage and creates unemployement as a result.
According to your idea of responsibilty the votes should say in the next election that the politician isn't responsible for the unemployement, because he lacks the ability to correctly assess the risk (if he would have that ability he wouldn't have pushed the policy).
I rather think that that politician is responsible for the unemployment and because of his responsibilty it is less likely that I will vote for him again.
For responsibility to have any meaning it has to apply in those cases where someone is unable to assess the risk of his actions.