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responsibility

"Responsibility" is paradoxical. It assumes that everything has a cause. But if you believe this, and keep asking for causes, eventually you'll get beyond the responsible human. For example, assume that some people are more altruistic. Why? Because they're good people. Why? Because they try to be good. Why? Because they try to try to be good. You see where this is going; every motivation can be traced to a meta-motivation and so on; nowhere in the chain of cause-and-effect is there anything which makes this person "better" than anyone else. At some point it boils down to, their parents raised them right.