How is a responsibility different from a duty?

The responsibility and duty are much more similar than different, though there is one thing that clearly separates them. A responsibility can be defined as the state or fact that the individual can be accounted for, or to be blamed for, based on certain power and authority. The duty can be defined as a legal or moral obligation, usually connected with the job requirements. The basic difference between the two comes to be that the responsibility is not something that is a must do, it should be done, but that depends on the person. The duty, on the other hand, is a must do, and the individual has a direct order from a superior to do so.