Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
When I think of Blame, Morality, Justice, Agency, I consider how most people blame "The Government" or "God" or "Power" or "Nature" or "Chance", anything and everything except blaming themselves... so consider this redirection. It's easy to blame everybody else for your misfortunes. It's very difficult to blame yourself.
But it is NOT 'hard' to so-call 'blame' "oneself". However, if one says or thinks doing so is 'hard', then maybe 'blame' is the wrong word here. See, it is ACTUALLY VERY simple and 'easy' to accept, as well as take, responsibility for what one does. Although it is also very obvious that because of the way adult human beings have been living, hitherto when this is being written, children grow up LEARNING TO BLAME "others" while also NOT LEARNING how TO ACCEPT and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY "themselves".
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
Because blaming yourself leads to depression, over-thinking, stagnation, immobility, paralyzation, guilt, stress, panic, disease, and worse, depending on the severity of the blamed action or event.
So-called 'blaming' "oneself" does NOT necessarily lead to 'these things' AT ALL. But, if an adult is finding that ANY of 'these things' happen or occur when they 'blame' "them self", then I suggest that they just ACCEPT and TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY, INSTEAD. And, if doing so while seeking to CHANGE, for the better, what they WILL FIND will be the EXACT OPPOSITE of 'those things'. In fact what they WILL UNCOVER, DISCOVER, LEARN, FIND, and SEE WILL BE Truly REVEALING, and REWARDING.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
Blaming yourself is just hard; it necessarily requires and imposes a strict Ethical system for yourself.
Here we can CLEARLY SEE, either:
1. A 'cop out', for just NOT doing the 'Right thing'. Or,
2 A reason as to WHY NOT USE the 'blame' word, and instead to ACCEPT and TAKE ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY, itself.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
Because if *YOU* are the Cause of your life's misfortunes, or other people's misfortunes, then a great deal of effort, foresight, and choice is required from then on out about what you Ought to do, and what you Will do, in face of these Moral Responsibilities.
WHAT?
As an adult human being WHO ELSE could even possibly be RESPONSIBLE FOR 'you'?
And, if ANY adult human being even THINKS that there is or even could be someone, or something, ELSE 'responsible' for absolutely ANY 'thing', then this SHOWS and PROVES just how MUCH LACKING IN 'responsibility' these adult human beings HAD, back then, and thus EXPLAINS WHY it took SO LONG to REACH and ACHIEVE the Truly 'Peaceful and Harmonious world'.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
It's easier just to shrug off all Blame, and point your finger elsewhere. Which is what 99.999% of humanity does, throughout life.
AND what are, relatively, ALL of 'you', human beings, POINTING your fingers AT, EXACTLY?
Also, WHY do you say 99.999% of humanity does 'this'? Who are the one/s who do NOT do this FINGER POINTING?
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
It's called "Confirmation Bias".
'What' is, SUPPOSEDLY, called 'confirmation bias', (with capital 'C' and capital 'B')?
Is the POINTING OF your FINGER ELSEWHERE' called 'Confirmation Bias'?
If so, then HOW and WHY, EXACTLY?
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
It's called "Selective Reasoning".
So, if so-called 'POINTING OF your FINGER ELSEWHERE' is called 'Confirmation Bias', then the 'POINTING OF your FINGER ELSEWHERE' is ALSO, according to "wizard22's" "logic" is ALSO called 'selective reasoning', (with a capital 'S' and a capital 'B').
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
You point toward yourself, when somebody needs to take credit for The Good.
'you', "wizard22", talk here as though 'you' do NOT BLAME ANY 'thing' else, NEVER POINT your FINGER ELSEWHERE, and NEVER POINT your FINGER TOWARD "yourself" when taking credit for the so-called 'good', (with a capital 'g').
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
You point toward everybody else, when somebody needs to take credit for The Bad or Evil.
WHY do 'you', "wizard22", USE the 'you' word here?
It is like 'you', "wizard22", ARE IMPLYING that "others" do some 'thing', which 'you', "yourself", would NEVER DO.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
So this is a very simple equation. What kind of Man, would point toward Himself when it comes to taking the entire world's Evil, and none of the Good?
Just a Truly 'grown up' and 'mature' one. That is; one who is JUST, Truly RESPONSIBLE.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
Can you think of a Man who would do such a thing,
YES, and NOT just 'think' of one, but ALSO KNOW OF one.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
who would represent such an inversion of common instinct, Morals and Ethics?
But doing the OPPOSITE is NOT 'instinctual' NOR even so-called 'common instinct'.
In fact, being Dishonest, BLAMING "others", and/or POINTING the FINGER ELSEWHERE is NOT 'instinctual' NOR a 'common instinct' AT ALL. 'These things' ARE LEARNED 'behaviors', or more correctly, LEARNED 'misbehaviors'. And, If and when one ENDS UP DOING 'these things', then this is just solely BECAUSE of living IN a 'Wrong life'.
Which, OBVIOUSLY, ALL of 'you', human beings, ARE, in the days when this is being written anyway.
Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:36 am
I think you can...think of such a Man.
What's His name?
WHY do 'you' a capital 'm' here for the 'man' word?