This is essentially the problem of victim blaming. Obviously it’s different since you’re using a self-orientated perspective instead of an other-oriented perspective, but the concept of deciding whether blame can be assigned for not having avoided a scenario is the same.
My understanding is that one argument against victim blaming is that we shouldn’t expect everyone to constantly be monitoring their situation (always striving to meet challenges) because it isn’t possible for humans to do that. We get tired. We miss something. We forget. And then if you’re in a mindset where you blame yourself if anything goes wrong, you will inevitably blame yourself for something because it isn’t possible to everything right. This blame can easily lead into a spiral where the self-blame causes guilt/shame which causes stress which causes more mistakes which causes self-blame. Because of human psychology, striving to meet every challenge might just be the thing that causes us to fail at them. We aren’t responsible for the fate of our future self because the human brain isn’t omnipotent over itself.
Of course, you’re welcome to try, but be prepared for burn out.
I don’t know, I feel like this post is specifically about something that is not victim blaming and seeks carefully to avoid that territory. That is, I see victim blaming as mostly about the social response to blame while this is about trying to assess the causal factors in an outcome. Whether or not one chooses to interpret those causes as blame depends on norms that are a bit besides the point of much of this analysis.
This is essentially the problem of victim blaming. Obviously it’s different since you’re using a self-orientated perspective instead of an other-oriented perspective, but the concept of deciding whether blame can be assigned for not having avoided a scenario is the same.
My understanding is that one argument against victim blaming is that we shouldn’t expect everyone to constantly be monitoring their situation (always striving to meet challenges) because it isn’t possible for humans to do that. We get tired. We miss something. We forget. And then if you’re in a mindset where you blame yourself if anything goes wrong, you will inevitably blame yourself for something because it isn’t possible to everything right. This blame can easily lead into a spiral where the self-blame causes guilt/shame which causes stress which causes more mistakes which causes self-blame. Because of human psychology, striving to meet every challenge might just be the thing that causes us to fail at them. We aren’t responsible for the fate of our future self because the human brain isn’t omnipotent over itself.
Of course, you’re welcome to try, but be prepared for burn out.
I don’t know, I feel like this post is specifically about something that is not victim blaming and seeks carefully to avoid that territory. That is, I see victim blaming as mostly about the social response to blame while this is about trying to assess the causal factors in an outcome. Whether or not one chooses to interpret those causes as blame depends on norms that are a bit besides the point of much of this analysis.