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How you respond shows your character. Essentially, this includes how you respond to the inescapable fact of slighting the gods, i.e., that you cannot adequately respond. We must respond to the fact that our response is inadequate.
To throw up your hands and proclaim that since there’s no perfect response, there’s no point in bettering yourself is a poor way to respond. To deceive yourself into thinking you’ve responded adequately, or to think you can adequately placate all who were slighted, are poor ways to respond. – Not that we should live in fear, wishing we had eyes on the back of our head so to speak, but that we should live upright in the knowledge of inadequacy. Perhaps, then, we asymptotically approach its opposite.
At stake is your character, your relations. Your character is with others, but it’s always yours.