There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences..
It's a quote from Wallace Earle Stegner . It always sounded true to me ,I imagine it mean that every body build himself in reaction to others . That we all have influence , and that we are all some how responsible for other joy and misery, but not necessarily in a predictable or acontactable way , more a factual statement that we are all having an influence on other.
It might be because that is 100% the case. Everything is a consequence of something else.
I am in no way responsible for anyone else! That is the reason I feel free to give opinions & advice....because I know darn well that people only hear what they Want to hear!