I've been reading a book about a certain mustached fellow's struggle. I volume 1, he speaks about appalling conditions of the working poor in Vienna during his early working life. He watched people go from employment to unemployment and back again, make poor financial decisions: adopting a feast/famine lifestyle, squandering a week's pay on alcohol while not feeding their families. He blamed it on evil circumstances instead of the individuals themselves making poor choices.
@DoubleD Absolutists always blame the other, the evil, biology or the "immoral", because they want to solve everything by forcing everyone to follow their specific set of rules they deem moral through holy war/jihad/polgrom/police state or similar.
If they blamed it on individuals themselves making poor choices, the solution would be to let them face consequences which goes against their savior complex.
The best they can do is to compromise and end up segregating themselves...or is there anothr?
@DoubleD i started reading the same book, but have not picked up up for a while. not an easy read. but thanks for the reminder.