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Confusing sovereignty with selfishness or isolation. Sovereign meaning-making does not mean ignoring others, rejecting community, or treating every external influence as contamination. It means that even when you choose to serve others, to follow tradition, or to sacrifice — the choosing is yours..
Two equal and opposite failure modes corrupt the responsibility thesis. The first is responsibility-as-blame: collapsing the distinction between "I own my response" and "it is my fault." A person who was harmed by another person's choices is not at fault for the harm. But they are responsible for.