Meanwhile, ordinary people learned to blame germs, not God, for catastrophes like the pandemic of 1918, when at least fifty million people, including nearly seven hundred thousand Americans, died of influenza.
I was too quiet, I made no noise, and I learned to blame myself for anything that was said or done to me.
They will learn to stop blaming the poor, or today's favorite target of the blame game African governments supposedly mired in megacorruption.
With a better understanding of why battered women do not escape their batterers, hopefully we can learn to stop blaming the victim.
Instead, learn from it and learn not to blame someone else for its failure.
We'd learn not to blame the rich for the poverty of the poor, but we'd also learn not to blame the poor themselves.
"In the ex-gay movement, that's how people learn not to blame themselves: They find a narrative to not make themselves a bad person," Drescher said.
If we instead learn that to blame others is the national sport of our time, under the banner of shouting that we should never as a nation apologize for our country's flaws, or seek to shift our way of considering problems, we will be in a bind typical to those who have ADD and are stuck in a defensive grandiosity.
One important thing about fighting with a sibling, is learning to take blame, where blame is due.
