It's a responsibility, though, not an option. You can choose not to pick something up if it's an option, but if you choose not to pick up a responsibility, you're doing the wrong thing. Is all pressure to do the right thing bad? Was it wrong for Uncle Ben to tell him that with great power comes great responsibility, since that was also a type of pressure. Ditko and Rand would both seem to think so, since they spend a lot of time mocking people who say things like that.