“Sometimes we blame people for making bad decisions when it is more appropriate to blame life for giving them bad options to choose from.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 24
In other words
A bad choice may be the best choice a person can see. Knowledge, courage, experience, and support all shape which options appear possible, so judgment made from outside can miss the narrow world in which the decision occurred.
This does not remove responsibility or make harmful choices harmless. It adds the conditions that help explain why someone believed the decision was right. Without a better view, even two mistakes can look like the only available paths.
Compassion can hold both truths: the choice caused harm, and the chooser may not have known how to create or recognize another way. Better options often require more than being told to choose well. They require the ability to imagine and build what was missing.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
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