Shifting responsibility rather than learning from your mistakes

“What does it do to you as a person if it turns out later that you have been on the wrong side of history? With full conviction?”
This sentence has occurred to me before. That's why I decided this time to write it down and find out what 'world' was hidden behind it.

Being responsible for the consequences of your choices, behavior and actions

Yes, what does it do to you if you have consciously made choices that have affected the lives of many people in a very negative way. When you have very consciously destroyed many lives. And in doing so changed the course of human history. Perhaps so bad that humanity is in danger of extinction.

Taking responsibility for your choices, your behavior and your actions is a big problem in this world. And the ability to shift that responsibility to others provides an escape route so that you can continue living after the most horrific consequences of your choices. Otherwise you would be consumed with remorse.

Particularly in positions of power, it is common, and you have the opportunity, to shift the responsibility for the consequences of your choices, behavior and actions to others. Sometimes even to the victim! Or actually: preferably to the victim because that is the one who took the blood from under your nails and worked against you. You had to take measures to stop that person and get them off your path!

And woe to those who respirit you of your responsibilities and say that you are making wrong choices, behaving wrongly and acting wrongly, and who keep insisting that you should do things differently! Like lice in your fur. Them too you will remove from your path!

Is it mainly the combination of power (position of power) and not wanting to take responsibility for the undesirable consequences for others? It looks like that. Or am I overlooking something?

Isn't the question before us:
What event/experience has made taking responsibility something you should avoid at all costs?
What conscious first experience in our collective consciousness with the death (as the ultimate consequence of your choices) of someone else was so traumatic that you could not bear responsibility for what had happened?

So it's about being aware, I realize now. Being aware that your choices, behavior and actions have consequences. Positive or negative consequences.

Okay, but if I am responsible, then so are others for their choices, behavior and actions. So who says that I am responsible for the misery and death of the other?

The 'sting' I talked about in my previous text is therefore being aware of the consequences of everything you do on the quality of the lives of others!
Your awareness then works as your conscience. You know it, you should have known it, and you could have prevented it by doing things differently.

That first experience of a conscious human being with unwanted / unintentional destruction at his hands apparently had such a lasting impact that that person could not live with it! After all, the past cannot be undone. And when the person became aware of this, it was too late to change anything about his or her choices, behavior or actions. This person was consumed with remorse and would have given his or her own life if it could change the situation. However, permanent damage has been caused to life. It cannot be reversed.
That is why all kinds of mechanisms have been created, smokescreens, to avoid having to face your responsibility and to be able to get on with your life without feeling guilty.

The first (self)conscious human being

Adam was not the first human being on Earth, but he was the first (self) conscious human being. The first person to be aware of the consequences of his choices, behavior and actions on the quality of the lives of others and on his living environment.
And he was aware that he was not perfect. He was not flawless. He made mistakes and those mistakes had consequences.
At the same time, he was aware that he was responsible for maintaining a perfect living environment. And the fact that every mistake had undesirable consequences for the living environment that could not be reversed.

Man punishes himself!
Why is this 'story' of the first man and the first conscious experience with the undesirable consequences of what you think and do, about a 'God' who punishes Adam by expelling him from Paradise?
While it is clear that it was Man himself who destroyed Paradise so that he no longer lived in a paradisiacal environment?
In contrast to Adam, this God seems perfect, because he, according to his own words, created a perfect world. So also a perfect Adam, right? Or was that a mistake?
Did 'God' already pass the blame on to Adam here?

Shifting responsibility upwards: 'I can't do anything about it, I was born that way.'
Shifting responsibility downwards: 'I can't do anything about it, he/she caused it/asked for it.'

Passing responsibility causes stagnation in evolution

However, being (Self) aware and your conscience are tools intended to help you get to know the effect of your choices, behavior and actions on the world around you. To enable you to discover what works in life and what doesn't. If something does not work, because it appears to have undesirable consequences for life, you can do it differently in subsequent comparable situations. In order to achieve increasingly better choices, behavior and actions in order to create a better future for everyone.
The past is a learning moment.

Instead, man feels guilty and remorseful for what he has broken. The past then becomes proof of your imperfection and unsuitability for life. There is no more improvement and growth possible.

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