  Moral responsibility is about human action and its intentions and consequences (Fisher 1999, Eshleman 2016).  Generally speaking a person or a group of people is morally responsible when their voluntary actions have morally significant outcomes that would make it appropriate to blame or praise them. Thus, we may consider it a person’s moral responsibility to jump in the water and try to rescue another person, when she sees that person drowning.  If she manages to pull the person from the water we are likely to praise her, whereas if she refuses to help we may blame her. Ascribing moral responsibility establishes a link between a person or a group of people and someone or something that is affected by the actions of this person or group. The person or group that performs the action and causes something to happen is often referred to as the agent. The person, group or thing that is affects by the action is referred to as the patient. Establishing a link in terms of moral responsibility between the agent and the patient can be done both retrospectively as well as prospectively. That is, sometimes ascriptions of responsibility involve giving an account of who was at fault for an accident and who should be punished. It can also be about prospectively determining the obligations and duties a person has to fulfill in the future and what she ought to do. 