Blogpost #8: Greater Responsibility

Each of us has a responsibility that must be done to our society because that also benefit us, ourselves. Whatever that is, we must complete the task that we are responsible for. I have a responsibility, my responsibility is to help my parents in house chores, study hard, and to care for my family.
 Normal humans have normal responsibilities unlike government officials, presidents, those are the ones that has higher responsibility than we do.

 "With great power comes great responsibility" stated Uncle Ben to his nephew, Peter Parker, also known as Spider-man. In this movie, it was showed how the normal human turned into a super hero, or more likely, a 'super human'. His normal responsibilities as a nephew and as a student became a greater responsibility as he acquired his super powers. Fighting crime and saving innocent people is not an easy job.

As I was browsing the internet, I found an article entitled, The Sequence of Personal Responsibility by Ron Haskins from the site called Brookings. Haskins stated, "But the personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame." That goes for super heroes as well. Super heroes do not just look up for justice, or for responsibilities outside their personal lives, they consider it as personal.

For the other type of super humans, the non-heroic ones, responsibilities may seem inevitable, but for them, the real responsibilities are just like the normal humans have. They protect their names, reputations and all but that has nothing to do with non-personal responsibilities.

The things that supers tell us, either epic or non-epic super heroes is that responsibility has no exceptions. All of us should know what we have to do in order to live peacefully and happily. Social responsibilities tend to be more difficult as we grow older. And that is when we acquire more power. That is the time when we will have greater responsibility.