collective responsibility

Arendt opens this weeks reading with collective guilt and responsibility. Although I do not come in close contact with gilt while doing service learning at the hospital, I see collective responsibility in affect. At the end of the day the whole hospital is responsible for how patients have been treated and how many survive. No doctor is blamed for what might have gone wrong. That is not the way a hospital gets its reputation, in fact it is through collective responsibility. Even though I am not a doctor or nurse and can not practice directly on patients, while I serve at the hospital I have the responsibility of maintaining all codes of conduct and enforcing our mission. The hospital as a whole is “held responsible for what has been done in its name” (149). It is the community Arendt gives an example of on page 150 and describes that we cannot live without a community. I can leave the hospital community, but without a doubt I will be entering another and exchanging "one kind of responsibility for another" (150). This goes further to prove that we all work together and without our togetherness we would not have the communities that help us thrive.