Sunday, October 18, 2009

The blame game

Blame is a loaded gun. When any huge tragedy is sustained, the question is never, "How can we make this right?" or "Did we deserve this?' No, it is always the same question, "Whose to blame and how can we punish them the best?" We can never get over a tragedy unless we have someone to blame. Hurricane Katrina a completely natural disaster, yet we still needed to find someone to blame, the government, the national guard, it does not matter unless it is someones fault. Why can we not take the energy we put in blaming into prevention or recovery? Blame is a terrible cycle we blame someone for something and punish them, they blame us for their punishment and we punish them, we view their punishment as unjust and punish them? Does this not sound a lot like the bickering we would do on the playground as children? Have we not progressed past childhood? I mean honestly at least children make amends and go pack to being friends eventually. Fighting can never be justified. Fighting made it possible for you to have this opinion... blah blah blah. True, this is a valid point, but let us examine why we fought. We fought because someone else wanted to fight us, we entertained this fight. So if they never needed to fight us we would have never fought them. We blamed them for starting it, thus we justified ourselves fighting back. You see, I am not bashing America, I am bashing the entire human race we are all at fault. "At fault," I just blamed the human race. We our all flawed we can not survive without blaming.

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