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by QuarterReptile 1380 days ago
>If you can quit a job but you choose not to do so, in what sense did you not "sign up for it"?

>she became Queen as a result of birth.

It is true that failing to live up to her responsibility was a path she could have chosen. She did not, and that is greatly to her credit. Choosing not to abandon your responsibility is a far cry from "signing up for it."

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Her responsibility to be a rich and powerful figurehead for a colonial empire? I don't see how choosing that was to her credit. Isn't it better to value something more than your own family's power and prestige?
>Her responsibility to be a rich and powerful figurehead for a colonial empire?

Correct

>I don't see how choosing that was to her credit.

I can see that.