 Not surprisingly, we often end up pointing to the particular tasks that we think the agent should be carrying out and refer to these tasks as the agent’s responsibilities. But we need to be careful here. For forward looking responsibility is not simply a matter of carrying out tasks. Instead, it is a matter of being morally charged with bringing about a state of affairs that is, by virtue of the ascription of forward looking responsibility itself, now part of the agent’s moral business. Hence, in discussions of forward looking responsibility, we do not simply say of an agent that the agent has responsibilities X, Y, and Z. Instead, we say that the agent is responsible for making sure that a particularly desirable state of affairs X, Y, or Z comes into existence.