An attitude that’s systematic in the UK’s government and public services, and no doubt in yours as well. Blame anybody and everybody as long as the blame doesn’t fall on you and you can keep your job while not doing whatever needs to be done.
I don’t think much thought goes into the ‘blame game’. It’s generally a knee-jerk reaction that we learn as kids, and never leave behind (as in ‘never grow up!’). It’s too bad, since it results in people never taking responsibility, and the world being a more dangerous place.
many will disagree with me on this.
but when I was growing up and somebody vandalized or committed worse crimes… they were undisciplined or mean spirited or if it was really a bad thing… they were thought of as even being evil!
nowadays… whatever atrocious thing they do and do repeatedly…
of course… they are SUFFERING from a mental health problem.
everything seems to be a mental health disability now. as if they can’t be responsible for their own actions. bull poop. that’s a cop-out to me.
there is an epidemic of ‘bi-polar conditons.’ they are not to blame of course.
blame it on their mental condition.
I say… give me a break and just GROW UP.
I know people who are bipolar. They’re also intelligent and responsible enough to take their medications. I’ve also read of mentally ill people being shot dead because the police didn’t realize they weren’t really in danger. It’s complicated.
Tammy, I don’t think it’s quite as simple as how you put it. Leaving “mental” health aside (lazy analogy: is it a sniffle or a fully blown cold?), we do (or so I hope) make allowances for people’s temperament. Some people are grumpy in the morning (so you try and make your presence as invisible as possible), some people see red at the slightest provocation, some people are given to crying at the slightest emotion. Some people are plain stupid, some people laugh at others’ misfortunes (for some reason a pet hate of mine bringing out the worst in me).
All of the above and about five million other traits are, obviously, down to our psychological make up. So whilst, on the whole, I do agree with you that we need to acknowledge responsibility for our actions I also believe that we need to give each other far more slack than appears to be the case.
But yes, the blame game – as depicted by Jean’s rather depressing cartoon – is rife. One may call finger pointing (away from oneself) a significant “defect”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMk2EwRi4Q
🙂 Thanks.
An attitude that’s systematic in the UK’s government and public services, and no doubt in yours as well. Blame anybody and everybody as long as the blame doesn’t fall on you and you can keep your job while not doing whatever needs to be done.
Yes, our politicians are masters at that.
I don’t think much thought goes into the ‘blame game’. It’s generally a knee-jerk reaction that we learn as kids, and never leave behind (as in ‘never grow up!’). It’s too bad, since it results in people never taking responsibility, and the world being a more dangerous place.
Agreed.
many will disagree with me on this.
but when I was growing up and somebody vandalized or committed worse crimes… they were undisciplined or mean spirited or if it was really a bad thing… they were thought of as even being evil!
nowadays… whatever atrocious thing they do and do repeatedly…
of course… they are SUFFERING from a mental health problem.
everything seems to be a mental health disability now. as if they can’t be responsible for their own actions. bull poop. that’s a cop-out to me.
there is an epidemic of ‘bi-polar conditons.’ they are not to blame of course.
blame it on their mental condition.
I say… give me a break and just GROW UP.
I know people who are bipolar. They’re also intelligent and responsible enough to take their medications. I’ve also read of mentally ill people being shot dead because the police didn’t realize they weren’t really in danger. It’s complicated.
Tammy, I don’t think it’s quite as simple as how you put it. Leaving “mental” health aside (lazy analogy: is it a sniffle or a fully blown cold?), we do (or so I hope) make allowances for people’s temperament. Some people are grumpy in the morning (so you try and make your presence as invisible as possible), some people see red at the slightest provocation, some people are given to crying at the slightest emotion. Some people are plain stupid, some people laugh at others’ misfortunes (for some reason a pet hate of mine bringing out the worst in me).
All of the above and about five million other traits are, obviously, down to our psychological make up. So whilst, on the whole, I do agree with you that we need to acknowledge responsibility for our actions I also believe that we need to give each other far more slack than appears to be the case.
But yes, the blame game – as depicted by Jean’s rather depressing cartoon – is rife. One may call finger pointing (away from oneself) a significant “defect”.
Off the leash, yours,
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