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93"The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making."
According to the statements, people's behavior is most likely be determined by force in a society other than the willing of himself/herself. Many evidences in reality attest to the proposition at ease. Taking scrutiny to these circumstance, however, we find although the superficial phenomena of these so-called reasonable proofs bolster the conclusion, their quality actually suggest an individual's behavior does have most correlation with his/her inner thought, not the social force.
At the first glance, many evidences in reality suggest that the way people behavior is due to the society's force but not their own choices. Two cases in point concern the Nazi Germany in the Second World War and the Civil Right Movement. Many Germans were enrolled in the Nazi Party and killed a lot of Jews, which was not according to most soldiers own willing. Martin Luther King, a outstanding leader in the Civil Right Movement, could become a brilliant priest if there was no discrimination existed. One can cite as many facts as one could to support the stated point.
However, taking a close analysis to the circumstances in which people are forced to behave by the world outside, we find people do have their own right to choose what to do even in even the most inclement situations. It is necessary for us to return to the two examples located above. During the Second World War, many individuals both in German and nations all over the world did their best to protect Jews against Nazi. German industrialist Oskar Schindler, taking the danger of being discovered and killed, set all his Judean workers out of Germany to safe areas, which was not controlled by Nazi. Even in this severe situation, he and many people with humanity can adhere to rightness and behave in the manner, as they are willing to, let alone other situations. Thus, it is reasonable to make people responsible for their own choices. And on the other hand, living in the same atmosphere, many minoritise did not guide the Civil Right Movement but Martin Luther King. It was his own choice in which he successfully took the responsibility and struggled to his best.
In fact, the situation which people have no choice is very, very rare. That is the primary reason why people are distinguish from each other. When facing a cross of life,distinguish people behave in dramatic different manners according to their own willing and earn their own experiences of life. Compelling example at hands involve the fields of education and people's daily life. Most people believe they are forced to receive higher education by the rapid developing contemporary society, whereas Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University on his own willing and judgment and eventually gained his success. During the period that SARS is pandemic throughout China, it seems that people have no choice but to stay in their house. But thousands of volunteers walked on the street, introduced to all the people they met the knowledge about SARS, took the responsibility as a civilian. If people's behavior is most likely to be forced by the situation they meet and the society they lived in, there will not be Bill Gates and the rapid extraction of SARS in China. Even further, there will exist only one kind of persons for the simple reason that all human beings are living in the same society and are prone to meet the similar situation. Simply put, in a society full of chance, one's behavior is determined by one's owning willing, which is the reason they must take their own responsibility.
From the reasons mentioned above, we could conclude people's behavior is largely determined by their own willing other than any other forces. Therefore, the concept of 'responsibility' does exist in our society but not just a fiction as the author assert. |
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