So what, we are absolved from our own responsibilities? Surely, then, my grandfather put his sons up to being Assassins, and Cesare's grandfather handed down his legacy to Rodrigo Borgia, so are they absolved from blame, too?

We take responsibility for what we have been given. If all of society decided to abandon their families and their duty, Italia would be Hell on Earth, and all of civilization would dissolve before us. Hundreds of years of progress for nothing, just because some men had no fidelity to their fathers.