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true, crompsin---but my point is that the exercise of that responsibility in an urban context is different from the exercise of that responsibility in another context---the limits placed around action or, more precisely, agency, are basically different. something that sometimes happens: a little kid who gets shot while watching television in his or her livingroom by a bullet set into motion within an altogether different situation....where does individual responsibility enter that scenario? from a viewpoint that includes the kid, the irresponsible action is putting the bullets into motion---from a viewpoint that includes only the situation that explains the shooting, things can be entirely otherwise. there are limits to this notion of individual responsibility, in other word, limits which come from the assertion of a collective right not to risk getting shot while watching tv in your living room (to stick with the example above)...
that's the problem--individuals do not operate in isolation.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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