Frankl asserts that you can never escape your responsibility because everything you do has a consequence, and that you can never know what the future holds in store for you in terms of possibilities for actualizing values.
He continues to list all the arguments proposed that would put people in a negative light. For example, even if you judge yourself poorly, the very fact that you can evaluate yourself points to your value. If you want to claim that human sympathy is egotistical, even a few model ethical individuals is evidence of the capacity of mankind as a whole. If great ideals are misused in politics, that only proves the power of those ideals. The need to cloak questionable conduct with morality for it to be accepted only proves that people hold morality dear. (p. 57-58)
What is striking to me about these arguments is not the logic but the underlying belief in human spiritual capacity. Like the grass that peeks out between the cracks of cement, Frankl insists that human failings and corruption are merely the surface that covers up a positive force surging underneath.
While the ethical impulse may only be a weak ember, the flame can never go out, and in this durability it reveals a power far superior to any superficial dominance in the world. He urges us to nurture the ember.