Blame Excludes Responsibility

Blame excludes all responsibility. You can't have both at the same time and they are not the same thing despite what those who project blame for a living (i.e. witch-hunters) want you to think. Blame shuns responsibility while only pretending to actually be responsibility. One way it does this is by using oxymoronic language such as, "personal responsibility", in order to confuse things, which makes it easier to convince people that blame is the same as being responsible. But there is nothing "personal" about real responsibility. It is action taken for the benefit of everyone, not just an excuse, like blame, to do nothing while everyone suffers. Responsibility takes action to solve a problem long before blame even points its accusing finger. It might not always solve a problem on the first try, but it knows that finding fault and placing blame never accomplishes anything and usually only makes things worse. Even though blame likes to pretend it makes a problem better it never does, because it can't. The best blame can do - and one of its favorite tricks - is to confuse the issue behind a veil of emotionally charged accusations and a lot of superficial action. For example, using punishment and reward "systems" to try to compel other people to take responsibility. But compelling someone to take responsibility is like trying to force them to love you! It can't be done. It might result in a false and temporary display of convincing compliance, but the display never lasts long before it turns into rebellion and spite behind the oppressor's back, which of course only make the problem worse in the end. Responsibility must be accepted freely, and it doesn't need to be rewarded. Like love, it is its own reward. Anyone who has ever been genuinely responsible, even just once, understands this. Those who can only place blame never will.