TheAntithesis
Nurtured, not Nature.
- May 26, 2023
- 21
Accountability, I never thought I'd come to hate a word as much as I have. Its probably my least favorite word in the dictionary. I cannot stand how regular people with well adjusted lives, can look at someone who's lived a lifetime of pain, who's been betrayed by the people who were supposed to raise and protect them, someone who was beaten, abused, tormented, and put through dire straits for the majority of their life, who's had their brain irreversibly shaped by mental illness and trauma, and tell them to "be accountable." What if someone is no longer in control? What if someone genuinely cannot control how relentlessly their thoughts assault, demean, and torment them?
I see this with every illness, even people who have genuinely lost touch with reality, like Schizophrenia, that they need to be accountable, that every action they take is theirs and theirs alone, and they need to live with the consequences of it. I think its genuinely disgusting, and I cannot even work up an ounce of respect towards someone who holds such a close minded, dismissive belief.
Not because of what they're saying is untrue, causality is real, actions beget consequences, no matter how unfortunate the circumstances are.
But rather because in our shoes, these people would crumple to their knees, and scream, in seconds. I'd like to see how long a person would claim to be accountable in our shoes, before they shove cold iron between their teeth.
I see this with every illness, even people who have genuinely lost touch with reality, like Schizophrenia, that they need to be accountable, that every action they take is theirs and theirs alone, and they need to live with the consequences of it. I think its genuinely disgusting, and I cannot even work up an ounce of respect towards someone who holds such a close minded, dismissive belief.
Not because of what they're saying is untrue, causality is real, actions beget consequences, no matter how unfortunate the circumstances are.
But rather because in our shoes, these people would crumple to their knees, and scream, in seconds. I'd like to see how long a person would claim to be accountable in our shoes, before they shove cold iron between their teeth.