Perhaps another way of interpreting that statement is that you are responsible for not imposing yourself on other people. Assuming &quot;other people&quot; to mean any member of the human race, your interpretation would seem to mean &quot;you are responsible for everyone you have any relationship with or to&quot;, which I don&#x27;t think is what the parent commenter meant.<p>Some are suggesting that responsibility for others is implied within a family relationship (spouses, children, elderly parents), but I disagree with this interpretation as it would exclude anyone without those relational ties from being recognized socially as an adult. I&#x27;m sure there are orphaned, spouse-less, childless people out there whom we would socially consider adults.