0 not being careful or giving enough attention to people or things that are your responsibility -- 疏忽的,失職的
Negligent mistakes can be penalized as lesser included public-welfare offences with monetary disincentives.
The natural lottery rule suggests that each negligent party is under a duty to compensate the victim for the full extent of harm suffered.
If negligence is itself wrongdoing and the parties are equally negligent, then-it might be argued-the liability of the parties ought to be similar.
It seems prima facie arbitrary that two equally negligent parties who differ in their luckiness may be liable for vastly different amounts.
A man need not possess the highest expert skill at the risk of being found negligent.
Furthermore, this account is not adequate to explain excusable, justifiable, or negligent omission.
In analyzing the duties that we owe to wrongdoers, it is useful to distinguish between intentional wrongdoers and negligent wrongdoers.
But to provide a basic account of negligent omission as such, we need to focus on the omission itself, not its consequences.