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  %LACK CLEAR CONCEPT LIMITED GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY 910209

     People find it difficult to behave responsibly  in  a
global  sense in the absence of a clearly articulated  and
agreed  upon conception of each person's real but  limited
scope of global responsibility.

     There are  bound to be great global dilemmas  if  all
people feel that they have no global responsibility,   and
so  all people ignore global dilemmas and turn their backs
on  global   dilemmas,  as if global dilemmas are  outside
their  realm of responsibility.  Individual responsibility
must extend in some sense to global dilemmas which  cannot
be  resolved  in  the  absence of individual interest  and
concern.

     There are  bound to be great individual  dilemmas  if
many   people    foolishly    take   upon  themselves  the
psychological  weight of feeling responsible for a  larger
fraction  of  the  global  dilemmas  than  is  healthy  or
reasonable to take upon themselves.   People who take upon
themselves  such unhealthy burdens contribute to the scope
of global dilemmas.

     Thus we need to articulate and work to generate  some
level of agreement upon the nature and extent of  people's
limited but real scope of global responsibility.   We need
personal illustrations  of the meaning of such conceptions
in real lives of  real  people who in healthy ways fulfill
the   vision   of  such  kinds  and  levels  of   globally
responsible  behavior.   We  need to  strive  for  balance
between concern and  work, to be able to respond wisely to
global  dilemmas  and concern;  and so be able to work  to
take healthy care of ourselves; for the two are intimately
inter-related.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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