英国新闻听力 怎样更好地理解责任感（在线收听）

In one of the oldest examples of political evasion, instead of answering the question that incriminated him Cain countered God with another.

How should I know where my brother is? Am I his keeper?

Is it wrong to pay cash to the teenager who mows our lawn? Of course not.

Unless I happen to know he isn't telling the Benefits Office, in which case of course it is.

But suppose I merely suspect? Or don't think to ask? Or consider it none of my business, want to encourage him with a taste for work and would very much prefer not to take the moral high ground with someone else's conscience?

The morality of responsibility can be far more complex than merely the law.

Friends of mine have started to wonder whether and when they should stop a parent driving. They know it's vital for seeing people, visiting offspring, staying interested in life.

Yet the parent may never even have taken a driving test and certainly wouldn't pass one now.

The state allows it: should the son or daughter prevent it – balancing the safety of strangers against the needs of the loved one?

Or the abstract principle against the immediate family. I was told I shouldn't work for someone who had made his money in a way some considered unethical: a friend had left his employment and wouldn't talk to me unless I did too.

I scoured the scriptures, finding several passages exhorting me to work hard and support my family, and one or two telling me how to submit to an immoral boss.

None suggesting I was responsible for my employer's conduct, past or present.

Someone I was very fond of at university turned his back on Christianity because he couldn't accept rich Christians in a world of hunger: he believed they should take responsibility for those on the other side of the world.

To his credit, he went on to establish two very well-known movements combating world poverty.

Responsibility can be brutal. Kevin Carter won the world's attention for famine with his photograph of a toddler being stalked by a vulture, as well as vociferous criticism for being a vulture himself.

And indeed the Pulitzer prize. The following year his suicide note read, "I am haunted by... memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain... of starving children."

Cain knew the answer full well. His brother Abel's blood cried out to him from the ground. Of course he should have cared for him.

But how do we pit one responsibility against another?

They tried to trap the Rabbi with questions. Should we support an oppressive regime? or refuse to pay taxes and break the law? He didn't evade the question.

He took it further. Show me a coin. Whose image is it made in? Then give the coin to him.

Now look at yourself. Whose image are you made in? Give responsibility where responsibility is due. To Caesar the things that are Caesar's.And to God the things that are God's.

We all have complicated duties to disentangle day by day. We start by knowing where our ultimate responsibility lies.