an infinite number of them, the innumerable generality of others to whom I should be bound by the same responsibility, a general

and universal responsibility I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another without
sacrificing the other other, the other others. Every other (one) is every (bit) other [tout autre est tout autre]; everyone else is
completely or wholly other. The concepts of responsibility, of decision, or of duty, are condemned a priori to paradox, scandal,
and aporia. Paradox, scandal, and aporia are themselves nothing other than sacrifice, the exposure of conceptual thinking to its
limit, to its death and finitude. As soon as I enter into a relation with the other, with the gaze, look, request, love, command, or
call of the other, I know that I can respond only by sacrificing ethics, that is to say by sacrificing whatever obliges me to also
respond, in the same way, in the same instant, to all others. I put to death, I betray and lie, I dont need to raise my knife over my
son on Mount Moriah for that. Day and night, at every instant, on all the Mount Moriahs of the this world, I am doing that,
raising my knife over what I love and must love, over the other, to this or that other to whom I owe absolute fidelity,
incommensurably. Abraham is faithful to God only in his treachery, in the betrayal of his own, and in the betrayal of the
uniqueness of each one of them, exemplified here in his only beloved son. He would not be able to opt for fidelity to his own, or to
his son, unless he were to betray the absolute other: God, if you wish.
(Derrida, The Gift of Death)