Journal #6 - Blame

Putting the blame on other people is a significant trait of many people. Almost every person on the face of the earth does it becuase it is apart of our human nature. People seem to do this when they fail at something because they are trying to cover up what they ahd done by turning it into somone else's problem. I think that people mostly put the blame on other people as a way of coping with their failure or possible as a way to make themselves feel better about doing something wrong. People might also blame people because they might not want to get punished by some sort of oppression. By blaming other people of our faults, we push those people away from us and may make that person feel insignificant. Putting the blame on other people can really hurt close relationships as well as hinder the process of teamwork. Working in a group, if something goes wrong and team members begin to blame their teammates, the whole team ends up failing just because no one could take responsibility for their actions. The team would have been sucessful had the person who was to blame had just taken the blame like a responsible person. Then the rest of the team could stop pointing fingers at each other, because by doing this they stop focusing on the focal point of their mission and begin focusing on hurting their own teammates feelings. I think that people can learn to work together better by holding back this natural instinct to blame other people. Blaming others can cause a lot of people hardship and pain. Blaming others is like a chain, there multiple links that hook together. If one person blames someone, then another person has to continue on and blame another person, as well as another person conitinuing on the trend for a very long time. This is why blaming other is such a bad thing, it is essemntially the same thing as a really bad lie that builds up.