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Regarding a previous question, how would you re-counter someone who counters that, if the woman had married the man who pined for her, he wouldn't have become an alcoholic or gone on a murderous rampage?

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Didge Doo answered

Nobody is responsible for the aberrations or depredations of another person. A person who suggests such a thing to excuse their own antisocial behaviour is indulging in emotional blackmail.

It's the sort of thing that happens when couples break up and one tells the other that they will self-terminate.

Danae Hitch Profile
Danae Hitch answered

Ahh, it's the old - I'm not responsible for my actions, someone else must be at fault - routine.

This would be an attempt at emotional blackmail. If you don't stay with me, I'm going to blow up the White House kind-of-thing.

In the end, the person that did those things is responsible for those things. You can wish the person had gotten mental health services earlier, but they have to be willing to go to counseling, or stay on their meds, or whatever.

That person chose to act out in that way. Unless they've been living in a cave their whole life, they knew that there could have been another way to handle their emotions / feelings, but they chose instead to act out in a horrendous way instead of getting help.

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Ask Dumb & Dumber how he knows that if she had married him he would not simply have now been characterized as a married alcoholic who went on a murderous rampage.

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