Amen. Whether or not it’s your fault is irrelevant when it is your responsibility. The blame game is an appeal to a crooked sense of justice. As I like to ask my nephews when they cry ‘not fair!’—Are you sure you’d like it if it was fair? Be careful what you wish for!
3 September 2020 at 15:07
dearieme said...
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
It's a great thing about Christianity, as I understand it, that we don't have to deserve resurrection and Heaven. Of course, that's also the scandal of it.
The comedian Joey Diaz said that when he was a young criminal he would never accept blame for anything. He says he wakes up in the morning these days, turns on the radio, hears about a traffic accident, and his first thought is, "I did that." Another relevant Joey-ism: "Nobody ever gets away with anything."
@SR. Yes, another aspect of the situation is that people feel paralysing guilt for stuff (fed them via the media) that they cannot effect, yet deny responsibility for their own thinking (including their decision to believe in the truth of the media).
"Whose fault?"
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Amen. Whether or not it’s your fault is irrelevant when it is your responsibility. The blame game is an appeal to a crooked sense of justice. As I like to ask my nephews when they cry ‘not fair!’—Are you sure you’d like it if it was fair? Be careful what you wish for!
3 September 2020 at 15:07
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
3 September 2020 at 15:45
It's a great thing about Christianity, as I understand it, that we don't have to deserve resurrection and Heaven. Of course, that's also the scandal of it.
3 September 2020 at 17:17
The comedian Joey Diaz said that when he was a young criminal he would never accept blame for anything. He says he wakes up in the morning these days, turns on the radio, hears about a traffic accident, and his first thought is, "I did that." Another relevant Joey-ism: "Nobody ever gets away with anything."
4 September 2020 at 06:53
@SR. Yes, another aspect of the situation is that people feel paralysing guilt for stuff (fed them via the media) that they cannot effect, yet deny responsibility for their own thinking (including their decision to believe in the truth of the media).
4 September 2020 at 07:02
"...people feel paralysing guilt for stuff that they cannot effect, yet deny..."
It's another road to what C.S. Lewis called "the horror and neglect of the obvious", that which we can effect. So unglamorous, so quotidian.
5 September 2020 at 05:27