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Passage: Emmanuel Levinas offers a radical ethics of the 'Other,' arguing that our primary moral responsibility is born from the encounter with the human face. For Levinas, the 'Face' is not just a physical object but a command that says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This encounter disrupts our selfish preoccupation with our own needs and places an infinite demand upon us to care for the Other. Ethics, in this view, is not a set of rules or a calculation, but an asymmetrical relationship where the Other is always more important than the self. We are 'hostage' to the Other's needs even before we make a conscious choice to help. Responsibility is thus the foundational structure of human subjectivity. Question: According to Levinas, our moral responsibility is:

1. Triggered by the encounter with the face of another person.
2. A result of following a set of established social and legal rules.
3. A choice we make after carefully weighing our own interests.
4. Limited to those who have directly helped us in the past.

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