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Old 21st Aug 2013, 17:01
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Coagie
 
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No, you got it backwards, blaming institutions is more satisfying than blaming individuals. Yes, I am back to react to nonsense.
Not only more satisfying, but, in most cases more comfortable for people, because they feel less guilty blaming a large, soulless entity, than an individual, who might get their feelings hurt. Sometimes the problem is with the system, but the problem with blaming the system, when it's an individual problem, is, often the solution on a systemic problem involves changing things that are working, thus risking throwing the baby out with the bathwater, otherwise know as the law of unintended consequences, where solving one problem, causes other, perhaps more significant problems. Giving merits and demerits to an individual isn't as risky to what works in the system. That's why it's important to see the big picture, and identify an error as systemic, or an individual anomaly, as the solutions are often different.
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