{"id":384,"date":"2020-12-08T23:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevebriscoe.wordpress.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2026-10-31T22:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:12:34","slug":"mistakes-should-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justal.net\/loqui\/mistakes-should-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistakes should hurt…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mistakes should hurt; there should be scares.\u00a0 Mistakes should have consequences.\u00a0 The person who made the mistake should be held accountable at whatever level of recompense required to account for an irresponsible action.\u00a0 That could mean anything spanning jail time to having to say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d\u00a0 Realizing you made a mistake should be a defining point of your day, maybe even your life.\u00a0 A mistake that results in a painful outcome, or a mistake that is accompanied by significant adverse consequences is, at least for prudent people, a teaching moment; the lesson to be learned, \u201cDon\u2019t do that again<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 At the very least, mistakes should enforce the need to calculate second and third order affects of our actions. \u201cWhat are the possible outcomes if I hang outside a moving train to get a selfie?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Nothing to worry about Mom, I’ve done this lots of times and never been hurt.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some mistakes (even those repeated time and time again) go unnoticed until the Law of Chance comes to collect its debt; then a minor mistake or misstep will extract its toll in blood and broken bones, or death, in quick order.\u00a0 So quick can be the collection of the debt that the perpetrator has maybe 1\/100th<\/sup> of a second to realize a mistake has been made; that 1\/100th<\/sup> of a second will last the rest of their life.\u00a0 You ever read stories, or watch YouTube videos of \u201cThe Darwin Awards<\/em>?\u201d\u00a0 I believe, those who appear as a recipient of the Darwin Award, or at least a large portion of them, are people who never took the time to learn from their mistakes; they never applied that life lesson or, more truthful than not, were never held accountable for their mistakes and\/or irresponsible actions.\u00a0 Their failure to properly apply lessons offered up by their mistakes resulted in them being remembered not by what they did in life, but rather by the ridiculous nature of their death or, a much scarier scenario, the death of others.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe, as a society, we\u2019ve ushered in this ill-conceived concept of not forcing an acceptance of responsibility for a bad act; and we have done so from an impractical vantage point; one we call moral but is anything but.  Rather than learn from mistakes we, as a society, have taken it upon ourselves, in order to avoid damaging their ego, to no longer allow people to take responsibility for their own actions.  It\u2019s always someone else\u2019s fault\u2014the public education system failed, it\u2019s society\u2019s fault, let\u2019s blame global warning, let\u2019s blame the parent who is not present, the environment or national history.  Blame anything or anyone you want\u2014just don\u2019t blame the person.  Unless of course that person is of a different political persuasion then we have every right to blame them for the ill-effect of sunspots and gall-force winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are unable to take responsibility for your actions and\/or unable to learn from your mistakes, then you are doomed to make the same mistake over and over and quite probably pass the trait of irresponsible action on to the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ill-conceived notion that we are not responsible for our own actions propagates itself like cancer and with the same result.  If you know a person who does not learn from their mistakes, and I suspect we all know at least one, then that person should be shunned and disregarded; nothing good can come from an association with such people\u2026 other than maybe another segment for the Darwin Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mistakes should hurt; there should be scares.\u00a0 Mistakes should have consequences.\u00a0 The person who made the mistake should be held accountable at whatever level of recompense required to account for an irresponsible action.\u00a0 That could mean anything spanning jail time to having to say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d\u00a0 Realizing you made a mistake should be a defining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t