It is easy for those who accept responsibility, especially those who feel unable to avoid accepting it, to resent those who have embraced irresponsibility and who consequently experience an ecstatic freedom. For the latter, “the free”, this is an accomplishment, a liberation or redemption won through courageous insight; but for the former, “the responsible”, this is a seizure made through ignorant luck, willful contempt, or both fused in complacent incuriosity — all subsidized by the responsible.

It is hard to get outside of these two ethical perspectives, or rather this one ethical perspective composed of two interlocked conflicting judgments. From any point between these two poles, the two poles define the ethical gamut.