Sanders's Argument Essay: Choosing Responsibility

As a wise woman once said, "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much". Humans who work together usually achieve more than those who work alone. One genius alone will not produce the same results as a group of geniuses together. Scott Russell Sanders explains that " We all need seasons of withdrawal from responsibility", but this does not mean that we can spend our entire life avoiding responsibility. In order for a society to succeed, all of its members must work together and each of these members must take responsibility. We cannot spend our entire life avoiding responsibility like this woman who went to places where nobody would expect anything from her. If a community wants to grow and flourish, then all of its members must work together and we must all take responsibility rather than avoiding it. Scott Russell Sanders states that a community can support only a number of people like the woman "who are just passing through, or who care about no one's needs but their own". A community will flourish when the people in that community care for all those around them. We need other people around us to succeed or we will just …show more content…
A community will remain strong if all of its members take responsibility and show care for one another. There are many strong communities that have gone though a tough time but remained strong as a whole. When the Boston bombings occurred, we all stood together as a community and helped each other through the tough time. We all showed support for all those who were wounded and we stuck together as a community. We all took responsibility and helped those around us. This is what a community is supposed to do. If we did not care about those around us, then we would not have stood together. If we did not stand together, then the community like Sanders said would "eventually break