A peculiarity of our species is its reflexive need to make one individual responsible for what happens: Smith’s slap, Putin’s war. The concept of personal responsibility contests the truth that we are not in control, things happen as they must, and everything causes everything
Some say that everything that happens, happens for a reason. But this is not even remotely true. Everything happens for innumerable reasons. We are part of a bigger story than Me and Mine.
Everything that happens, happens as it must. Everything that happens has innumerable causes.
Man has two addictions: (1) Sugar. (2) Causality.
Since everything is inter-connected, everything has numberless causes. Accordingly, there is no profit in the question, “Why did this happen?”
Unless, of course, it happens twice, in which case the responsibility is mine.
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