人们经常听说个人需要为他们自己的生活负责任。然而，人们发现自己所处环境的存在要远远早于人们对其的认识。因此，个人责任的概念要比通常人们想象的要复杂和不切实际。

The statement can help us understand better the concept of personal responsibility.

1. We all live in conditions that have been largely established by others.

2. The environment in which we act, often uncontrollable, exerts unforeseeable influence on our behavior.

3. Therefore, it is necessary to take into account the objective conditions when we require a person to assume responsibility.

　大多数人在物质上和精神上都生活在一个非常有限的圈子里面。除非要面对严重的问题或者危机，否则他们仅仅会利用有效资源的极有限的一小部分。

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1. Many people are confined by the physical deficiencies or moral regulations in their way of living. They have to obey them to procure their reputation, fame, success, and so on.

2. However, when confronted with crisis and the like, people will use resources of others or of the community or even the whole society.

在任何领域当中，领导作用总是来自于这些人，他们并不为传统的观念所动，而是极力渴望表达那些和主流思想不同的观点和想法。

1. When it comes to political power, I would admit that a deep-seated psychological need to be noticed or to be different sometimes lies at the heart of a person’s drive to political power and fame.

2. Nevertheless, for every leading political voice driven to new ideas by a desire to be noticed or to be different, on can cite many other political leaders clearly driven instead by the courage of their convictions.

3. Turning to the arts, creative urges are born not of ego but rather of some intensely personal commitment to an aesthetic ideal.

4. As for the physical sciences, innovation and progress can only result from challenging conventional theories—that is, the status quo.