\u201d\u2039Zosima\/Dostoyevksy then pushes the idea further:<\/p>\n
But when he knows that he is not only worse than all those in the world, but is also guilty before all people, on behalf of all and for all, for all human sins, the world\u2019s and each person\u2019s, only then will the goal of our unity be achieved. For you must know, my dear ones, that each of us is undoubtedly guilty on behalf of all and for all on earth, not only because of the common guilt of the world, but personally, each one of us, for all people and for each person on this earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This suggests that, in some sense, we are responsible for police brutality; for the decay of the inner city; for police shootings; for lack of sympathy with law enforcement; for politicians and social activists, left and right, that have inadvertently fostered a culture of violence; and so on\u201d\u201d\u201cfor all people and for each person on this earth.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
To be honest, I don\u2019t quite know what this fully means. We are so locked into an individualistic worldview, that Dostoyevsky\u2019s idea is hard to grasp. But I sense he\u2019s on to something, and we hyper-individualistic Christians would be wise to heed it.<\/p>\n