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<blockquote data-quote="JB Books" data-source="post: 2514626" data-attributes="member: 6889"><p>No one is absolving people for their own hand in their misery. Personal responsibility is crucial. However, we have to try a different approach. Your rhetorical question about repeating the same behavior is just as applicable to "us" as to "them."</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The boot straps analogy presupposes everyone has a pair of boots. Most don't. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A major problem is the self-interest of the self-proclaimed leaders of this community. They are masters at milking old wounds for maximum self-benefit, with no regard to the good of the community as a whole.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you simply treat symptoms, without treating the underlying condition, nothing will ever change. </p><p></p><p>No one is suggesting that bad or criminal behavior be excused, simply that we have to try a different approach that treats the root cause.</p><p></p><p>However, it won't happen. Things will just continue on as they are, with all of us increasingly more fragmented and miserable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JB Books, post: 2514626, member: 6889"] No one is absolving people for their own hand in their misery. Personal responsibility is crucial. However, we have to try a different approach. Your rhetorical question about repeating the same behavior is just as applicable to "us" as to "them." The boot straps analogy presupposes everyone has a pair of boots. Most don't. A major problem is the self-interest of the self-proclaimed leaders of this community. They are masters at milking old wounds for maximum self-benefit, with no regard to the good of the community as a whole. If you simply treat symptoms, without treating the underlying condition, nothing will ever change. No one is suggesting that bad or criminal behavior be excused, simply that we have to try a different approach that treats the root cause. However, it won't happen. Things will just continue on as they are, with all of us increasingly more fragmented and miserable. [/QUOTE]
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