A Simple Twist of Fate

[RM5998]

Half of what you wrote is in white.

Yikes. I'm running on dark mode, so I've got no way of telling whether it's the default text colour or hardcoded white.

Anyway I think blame is wrong when placed upon an individual because we're all in a society that's imperfect by the properties of reality and which is why a person may become damaged to a point of committing a wrong. The contrary is comparing the individual to another person and who doesn't do anything unpleasant because the events needed to do evil didn't occur.

That's why rehabilitation is a better modal than the current justice system in the western world that focuses on punishment. People who are not damaged will rarely if at all, do an unpleasant action and to another person. They rarely end up blaming themselves if at all.

Theoretically this argument can work for many things associated with blame. People just think they need to blame themselves if something happens but that's a straw man argument because the events shouldn't happen if society was perfect by the properties of reality; thus, it's the fault of society with nature's properties if we really examine what caused it it all.

My point was less from a sociological perspective and more about what the idea of responsibility means in a deterministic world. Of course, an individual is affected by what happens to and around them, and that's something that often goes unacknowledged.