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Why Do We Want Problems to Be Someone’s Fault?
To scapegoat, in many cases, is to refuse to accept disorder as a fact of life. When we believe it’s in our power to solve basically any problem, we inadvertently dedicate our lives to it.
It is a simplistic notion that if something is wrong, someone has to be at fault.
Gabor Maté • Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
It seems that it comes very naturally for us to decide that when things go wrong, it must be because of some bad individual with bad intentions. We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening.