Comments on: With ‘Great Power’ comes ‘Great Responsibility’ http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/ Grace Junction, Ahmedabad Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jacquelyn Buitrago http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-2173 Jacquelyn Buitrago Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:58:44 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-2173 your post really aids, nowadays i receive the very same difficulties, and i've no idea on how you can solve the concern. thankgod i appear yahoo and discovered your post, it helps me get rid of my trouble.regards! your post really aids, nowadays i receive the very same difficulties, and i’ve no idea on how you can solve the concern. thankgod i appear yahoo and discovered your post, it helps me get rid of my trouble.regards!

]]> By: Robot http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1920 Robot Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:51:54 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1920 Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher! Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!

]]> By: Flash http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1351 Flash Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:50:11 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1351 Great post! Great post!

]]> By: Pratik Saptarshi http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1318 Pratik Saptarshi Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:04:41 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1318 It is a very well written article. Author hasn't let emotion or feelings cloud his better judgment which is really great. Personally I think we need to retract the power. Everyone from the politicians to the police officers has been misusing it; the only difference being that the latter seldom get caught. It is a very well written article. Author hasn’t let emotion or feelings cloud his better judgment which is really great.

Personally I think we need to retract the power. Everyone from the politicians to the police officers has been misusing it; the only difference being that the latter seldom get caught.

]]> By: pooja http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1313 pooja Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:20:24 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1313 With great power comes great responsibility and with great responsibility comes Greater Accountability! Without accountability, responsibility doesn't work... With great power comes great responsibility and with great responsibility comes Greater Accountability! Without accountability, responsibility doesn’t work…

]]> By: Santosh Paul http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1312 Santosh Paul Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:13:44 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1312 I think its the value system that we build around our environment is whats bringing this. I made a a decission some time ago that I'll not break traffic signals. Many times it has happened that people in front of me move before the signal turning red but i stay their, bearing the grunt of people in my back with their horns. But many times it has also happened that though the signal is not manned and when i'm the only one to stand on a red signal, people have followed me. I'm not being pompous when i write this, but i think we as disciples of Christ can start taking these small initiatives, so that people can learn from us. I was also thinking of putting a small banner on my rear glass "I don't run red signals, so please dont honk". As Geo says accountability in all things small and big needs to happen. I think its the value system that we build around our environment is whats bringing this. I made a a decission some time ago that I’ll not break traffic signals. Many times it has happened that people in front of me move before the signal turning red but i stay their, bearing the grunt of people in my back with their horns. But many times it has also happened that though the signal is not manned and when i’m the only one to stand on a red signal, people have followed me. I’m not being pompous when i write this, but i think we as disciples of Christ can start taking these small initiatives, so that people can learn from us. I was also thinking of putting a small banner on my rear glass “I don’t run red signals, so please dont honk”. As Geo says accountability in all things small and big needs to happen.

]]> By: Geo http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1309 Geo Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:51:30 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1309 In the follow-up of the incident of Surat, there have now been raids on many a mobile phone shops across the state and a lot of sleaze found. "There are a lot of people out there who watch such stuff", says an officer, "it needs to be stopped"!! Can anyone ever stop it??! Brute force to rout reckless power?! "We need to educate our young people and imbibe in them ethical values", says a sociologist, as a solution to the growing menace! Were the Surat brats, or Shiney Ahuja or David Letterman ignorant of ethical values?! Or is the sociologists talking about educating potential victims? Is education an answer to this? There was a T-shirt which harked - "I was born intelligent, education spoiled me". Though the T-line is very sloppy, it has a point. Once there was a case of educating young men who used to steal nuts and bolts from railway tracks. Education was cited as the solution and it did solve the issue of the nuts and bolts. Thenceforth, there were no railway lines at all! The thugs learnt that it was better to take away the whole line than just the nuts and bolts! I think the only possible solution is "accountability". Now this word means more than just a "responsibility". The latter has its references inside the self, while the former necessarily has its references outside. Responsibility is a 'deliberate' act of volition while accountability is 'responsibility combined with answerability' to a "greater power", a power that watches every move, word and thought and will judge us based on them! If only there was a 'Reverence for an Almighty God'! 'Accountability' needs to happen in all, with or without power. In the follow-up of the incident of Surat, there have now been raids on many a mobile phone shops across the state and a lot of sleaze found. “There are a lot of people out there who watch such stuff”, says an officer, “it needs to be stopped”!!
Can anyone ever stop it??! Brute force to rout reckless power?!

“We need to educate our young people and imbibe in them ethical values”, says a sociologist, as a solution to the growing menace!
Were the Surat brats, or Shiney Ahuja or David Letterman ignorant of ethical values?! Or is the sociologists talking about educating potential victims? Is education an answer to this? There was a T-shirt which harked - “I was born intelligent, education spoiled me”. Though the T-line is very sloppy, it has a point. Once there was a case of educating young men who used to steal nuts and bolts from railway tracks. Education was cited as the solution and it did solve the issue of the nuts and bolts. Thenceforth, there were no railway lines at all! The thugs learnt that it was better to take away the whole line than just the nuts and bolts!

I think the only possible solution is “accountability”. Now this word means more than just a “responsibility”. The latter has its references inside the self, while the former necessarily has its references outside. Responsibility is a ‘deliberate’ act of volition while accountability is ‘responsibility combined with answerability’ to a “greater power”, a power that watches every move, word and thought and will judge us based on them! If only there was a ‘Reverence for an Almighty God’!

‘Accountability’ needs to happen in all, with or without power.

]]> By: Vinay http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1307 Vinay Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:18:24 +0000 http://www.gracejunction.com/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/#comment-1307 True, very true. But the problem is that the innate evil within us humans to use power, in whatever form, tends to trample on our neighbours rights. Somehow, this evil tends to make us seek pleasure through power at the cost of others. The power, once ordained by God, which was supposed to be shared, is now attained in singularity with neither any sharing nor any responsibility. Unless the power is void of this selfishness, self-centredness, it will continue to trample on others' lives, their rights and their worlds in order to fulfill that profane pleasure. True, very true. But the problem is that the innate evil within us humans to use power, in whatever form, tends to trample on our neighbours rights. Somehow, this evil tends to make us seek pleasure through power at the cost of others.

The power, once ordained by God, which was supposed to be shared, is now attained in singularity with neither any sharing nor any responsibility.

Unless the power is void of this selfishness, self-centredness, it will continue to trample on others’ lives, their rights and their worlds in order to fulfill that profane pleasure.

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