>>what I find interesting is the context of "dumping the responsibility". There "are" online dictionaries where you can look up what the word means. Just sayin' :)
In context, the intended definition option seems obvious: we are not politicians or other sound biters who trawl for possible misinterpretations. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
