But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it wuld be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene; if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.

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Karl Jaspers: "But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it wuld be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene; if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction."

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Absolutely	Action	Bear	Because
Challenge	Consequences	Consistently	Dare
Darkly	Demands	Enter	Find
Form	Guilty	Happen	Inaction
Intervene	Into	Itself	Kind
Lead	Maintained	Meet	Necessarily
Occurs	Reality	Refusal	Responsibility
Ruin	Situation	Something	Suicide
Swift	World	Wuld

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But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it wuld be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene; if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction. - Karl Jaspers