Post #199274 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 21, 2005 10:19 AM

I am always amazed with the seemingly unlimited human ability to justify one's unethical actions. How can they do something clearly wrong, and live with it !?

It seems to be the human survival instinct that enables those people to be in denial of the fact that they did something wrong, and allow them to feel OK about themselves. This happens on a large scale, with dictators who order mass murders and still think they are an OK person, and on a small scale, for example with relationships, where one has lived and loved with a person for ten years and believes they never could act as they do when things break apart.

Although more often than not I find myself understanding both sides of a conflict I encounter, and see the reasons of why both parties feel the way they do, there are those situations that are clear cut and simply wrong.

If this is the case here, and it is a repeat occurrence, I do believe the culprit's deed should be called, so that a.) nobody else gets harmed again in the future, and b.) they see that they cannot get away with it, and are forced to face their denial.

I believe that nobody really wants to do bad, they just have a weakness that they need to be helped to confront.

This all might seem to be a little heavy and moralistic for a macrocosm like TC, but we are a little mini world here, and the transaction seems to have been originated through TC contact, so if things seem out of order somewhere, they should not be glazed over.