Categorical Imperative: It is neither moral nor ethical to treat a person as a means to an end, but to treat the personal as the end.
Emanuel Kant

This is a world where all opportunity exists in the same time and place. The world is a giant buffet where you get to choose any experience you desire. The world is a stage and you create all the actors you will interact with. You will experience being the actor, the playwright, director and stage hands, all at the same time. All of these people are aspects of your imagination and will serve your purpose.

The stage has been set and the actors are in place-now what? Where to you go from here? Where does your responsibility lie for the people you have brought into your life?

Your only responsibility lies with the opportunity you have given the others to enter your awareness. They have come willingly and have agreed at some level of consciousness to be part of your play. They are not victims, they cannot be, you simply to not have that power. What you do have is a responsibility to yourself to create what you desire in accordance with your own belief system and within the paradigm you are now living your life.

If someone has been drawn into your life because they want to experience being a victim, then you are giving them the opportunity. And you are at the perfect time and place for them to experience victim hood and a very unique way. What you need to be aware of is, treating someone as a victim my not be within the image you have of yourself and if you violate the image, you violate yourself. You are not moving forward, you have taken a turn that will not work for you. When we treat people with respect for the gift they have brought us (opportunity), we are not using them. When we treat a person outside of our nature for the purpose of deception to get something from them, we both become victims of the lie. However, even this relationship was intentional and agreed to at some level of consciousness. You cannot do anything to another without consent at some level of consciousness. For the purpose of enlightenment what you are doing will not take you to were you say you want to go spiritually. It's not a question of right or wrong, it simply does not work for the play and needs a correction.

All persons in your life have a purpose-a gift for you. It is in the acceptance or rejection of the gift that your responsibility can be found.

Within a relationship with others, you are nothing, have nothing and you will be nothing until you know you do because of their presence. Having nothing can be everything if there is no one else you can relate to and visa versa-but you would never know it. Your very existence is defined by others and it is why you are experiencing them. They are symbols you create so the ego will know itself as itself. Your parents, friends, family and strangers symbolize who you believe yourself to be in the moment they are in your consciousness. Expect nothing more from them then what you have already brought you.

Only in relationship to others will you ever know you are alive or who and what you are-it is this knowledge over which humanity obsesses. Acknowledge them-for they give you definition and opportunity.