Mia, I think you're right. I'd just like to paraphrase it in language that speaks to me, and maybe to a few others:

Very early in the semester Eben noted that none of our Intro's contained the words "responsibility" or "duty." [or risk.]
I wonder whether we could benefit, by setting aside the question of "what I want to do," and ask "what I have a duty to do, in light of the assets (wealth, education, institutional membership) that the social roulette table has entrusted to me."
I imagine that it's a hard first decision to make -- the decision to ask THAT QUESTION over any other -- but that it makes all the subsequent decisions really really easy.

-- AndrewGradman - 16 Apr 2008