Even the worst situations remain fundamentally human and thus our responsibility

Evidence

Furthermore this absolute responsibility is not resignation; it is simply the logical requirement of the consequences of our freedom. What happens to me happens through me, and I can neither affect myself with it nor revolt against it nor resign myself to it. Moreover everything which happens to me is mine. By this we must understand first of all that I am always equal to what happens to me qua man, for what happens to a man through other men and through himself can be only human. The most terrible situations of war, the worst tortures do not create a non-human state of things; there is no non-human situation. It is only through fear, flight, and recourse to magical types of conduct that I shall decide on the non-human, but this decision is human, and I shall carry the entire responsibility for it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1288

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘absolute responsibility’ genuinely means as a logical consequence of freedom, not resignation.
• XREF: Directly anticipates Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity — responsibility as coextensive with freedom rather than a burden to escape. — connects to: The for-itself’s responsibility extends to the whole peopled world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1293; The meaning we assign to setbacks is wholly our own responsibility. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 15; Who we are matters despite situational factors (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The for-itself’s responsibility extends to the whole peopled world #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1293
• Who we are matters despite situational factors #corroborates (0.80)
• Moral responsibility to others shrinks and vanishes with increasing distance #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 547
• The meaning we assign to setbacks is wholly our own responsibility. #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 15
• Beliefs about human nature shape moral responsibility and conduct #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 151
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 495
• Humans cannot be described statically because humanity is constantly in the making #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 103
• Individual moral responsibility justifies disobeying unjust laws #expands (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 819