Biggest Pet Peeves

How would you feel if you were falsely accused of committing an act that you are not responsible for and could have potentially changed what people thought of you for a very long time? On July 27, 1996 someone had made an anonymous phone call, stating that a bomb will explode in the Atlanta Olympics during the Summer Olympics. In this tragic event, one-hundred people and one deceased. A man named Richard Jewell was deceitfully accused of being the bomber of the Atlantic Olympic Bombing. Jewell denied playing any sort of role in the bombing occurrence. The bomber was not considered a suspect until two years later in February. Eric Robert Rudolph who placed the bomb at the Atlanta Olympics was also in a connection with three other bombings. It becomes ironic that the police officers can be in a dramatic rush to find who was responsible for the acts that were committed, they rush to figure it out also to keep the crime off of the streets and to be punished for committing an act of wrong doing. There are other cases where the police have accused innocently people of committing a crime in which they have not done. An example of this would also be the Boston Marathon, where bombing had all mad an occurrence at this event.

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Is there ever only a single person to blame? How is it considered a controversial issue with one person involved? In Nothing but the Truth by Avi Wortis, we learn that there are multiple people that could take the blame in every situation. Lying and blame can be revolved around very many people and in the book, Philip, Miss. Narwin, and Dr. Palleni will show how a slight, minor lie can escalate and can cause everyone in the situation to make mistakes.

Notably, the fundamental attribution error is a personal bias that is problematic in society. To emphasize, the fundamental attribution error is when individuals have the tendency to attribute people’s behavior to components of their character or personality, even when situational influences are producing the behavior (Textbook, page 171). An example of the fundamental attribution error operating in daily life is when a driver avoids hitting a pedestrian and causes an accident. In this

I do take full responsibility for my actions when I am the only one who engages in that act. However, if someone else is involved and he or she does not get punished, I start to blame the condemner. The reason for this is because the condemnation is unfair since it does not include everyone involved. I remember when I was 16 years old, I managed to get a scratch on my dad’s car. Of course my parents were not happy about this and scolded me for it. I believed that it was unfair because there was a huge dent in the car that my brother caused. However, he was not punished because he is the oldest and I should have learned from his mistakes. I honestly thought that reasoning was injudicious and tried to “turn” the blame around on my parents. As mentioned in the article, this condemnation was unacceptable because someone else who did the same thing was not punished. This is why I believe that this technique of neutralization is relevant to

When we are younger we used to get our brother or sister and pick on another sibling. When mom or dad comes to yell at the person who started it we tend to pin it on someone else or you are the person who gets left with all the punishment. At one point in our lives we were blamed for something we didn't do or we were the person that pushed it onto someone else. Arthur Miller expresses a lot of scapegoating or being the scapegoat in The Crucible.

When people condemn others, the accuser affect themselves the most. Marc and Dianna MacYoung, the authors of No Nonsense Self-Defense, in their article “Blaming Justifies Your Own Bad Behavior” writes, “Unfortunately, blame is

An example of this is when Holden is failing from Pencey he blames his parents for making him go there in the first place. Holden might be to blame for some things like braking all the windows in his basement, but society is to blame for his downfall in mental health. “In fact, lack of success may more often be caused by what I call The Peter Pan Syndrome: they won’t grow up.”(Nemko, pg.1) Holden never wants to be responsible for the things that he causes to go wrong. He has blamed his parents for the things he has done and for him not trying at all. He blames his parents for Allie’s death and that they were the reason that he wasn’t able to go the his funeral. Holden blames his parents and doesn’t want to take responsibility for his wrongdoings.

In doing this, I gained absolutely nothing because no matter how hard I tried to blame someone else, it was still my responsibility and my fault. Just by experience I have learned that the best course of action is never to blame someone else but to take responsibility. Knowing this, I will try to take full responsibility for my actions in the future to prevent myself from blaming others.

“I think it’s the kind of events that replays itself throughout history when cultures come under stress. When societies come under stress these kinds of things happen. People start looking around for essentially human sacrifices. They start looking around for somebody they can blame…” (Margaret Atwood). Throughout time people have engaged in actions that they later regret and instead of taking it upon themselves they have simply given someone else the responsibility of the blame.

Some of the brightest young students at this school are faced with a growing problem. In class there are disruptive and downright rude students who do not contribute to the learning environment. These bad students are a terrible influence to the rest of the school community, those who don’t care about their education are more likely to get involved with violence and gangs. Some of these students are simply “un-teachable” and are a waste of time and space, overcrowding the school and ruining its reputation. We must heed the saying “A rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel.” After all, what will become of these worthless people in the future? I hereby suggest a proposal to eliminate all of these social ills, make use of high school

Within life many people tend to blame others for their misfortunes because of a mistake or decision made by someone else. However, in many cases it was their own decisions that caused their problems to worsen. The others may have put said person into a situation but they dug themself deeper than they were to begin with. In the end people are the masters of their own decisions, it just depends on if they listen to themselves or if they listen to

There are many situations where I felt myself and others were treated unfairly; However, I’m going to share the one that struck out to me the most. Growing up, I was raised in a Christian background, specifically Methodist. Even though I respect the views of those who are not Christian, unfortunately not all Christians do that. Some Christians use their Christianity to judge those who are not living up to their expectations or those who are not righteous in their eyes. I experienced it myself because I was in a situation where other Christians were castigating me.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wondered why people are so rude and why does it seem like being rude is accepted? I encounter a rude person at least 1-2 times a day. Growing up with a family that teaches respect, I would’ve thought that everyone was the same, but as I got older I realized most of these people were not raised with knowing how to respect people. I agree that rudeness is on the rise. More importantly because of what I grew up knowing and what I saw is a big difference to how it is now without generation.

You also cannot blame yourself for everything that goes wrong, not everything is going to be your fault, in some cases when you are 100% wrong apologising is a good quality, but you shouldn’t feel the need to apologise for everyone else’s mistakes.