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Monday Morning Thought

Added on by Chris Saad.

Monday morning thought:

Whenever I start blaming other people for things, if I take a little time to reflect, I generally realize how I'm at least partly responsible, reacting to something I dislike in myself or showing a lack of empathy.

This morning I was lamenting how people tend to get the outcomes they deserve either through inattention or poor choices. This was a disturbing thought because it's actually a fundamentally conservative idea. Although unrelated to the specific subject I was thinking of, by logical extension, It suggests that poor people, for example, are that way because of bad choices or some kind of cultural defect rather than a lack of opportunity and education.

In my case I was thinking about this because I was upset at some of the choices people around me were making.

After ruminating on it for a while I've come to realize that I'm making some of those same choices in my own life. I was able to understand how my own behavior, seen from the outside, might actually appear as the same frustrating and inexplicable "poor" decisions to others.

Let he without sin cast the first stone... or some such metaphor.

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