Causality and Modern Politics:
Liberal-leftists blame nothing, or objects. Conservative-rightists blame victims. But neither side, neither party, blames the cause for the action and event. For example, in light of the recent Las Vegas mass shooting, liberal-leftists immediately repeat their mantra and agenda, “ban guns!” To which the conservative-rightists will defend their base, “you are taking away guns from those who could defend themselves!” But the recent mass-shooting is exceptional. The victims could not defend themselves with guns, as the shooter was at such a vantage point that they could not return fire. Nor do people bring guns to music concerts, or elementary schools, or movie theaters, etc. And hypothetically people should not, ought not, have to bring guns to defend themselves in these ‘safe’ areas.
Thus most people are missing the point, and not attributing Cause to its rightful place. Liberal-leftists are afraid to blame anybody for wrongness. Conservative-rightists tend not to blame the right people. Thus there is a problem of Justice in the u.s. and western culture. Western culture lacks blame. And it lacks correct and accurate blame (Morality). Who ought to be blamed for events such as these, or throughout life, any types of events. Who ought society point the finger at?
Western society has not developed its sense of Justice, blame, morality, judicial law, etc. Again this is evident by the political base, how liberal-leftists want not “to blame anybody at all”. And conservative-rightists are quick to blame the victims. If a desperate bum rapes a woman, then liberal-leftists will say “he was failed and not properly educated by society thus we are all to blame”. Conservative-rightists will say, “she should not have dressed so provocatively” and “she should have carried a gun to defend herself”.
Both sides can be wrong. And this fact escapes most Westerners, as, much or most or even all of their social “privileges” are built around concepts which protect some from blame, while re-directing blame and causality elsewhere. Spiritually, for pop religion, this means a redirect to godliness or some “grand author”. Blame is always redirect to god or satan, a scapegoat. Thus public blame, in events such as these, tend to shift to the political left-right spectrum, or the religious “satanic” scapegoat.
This was done very early in the recent mass shooting, as even the President and other authorities mention “Evil” as the cause.
But, these are mere scape-goating compulsions. Who in Modern discourse, which majority of people, actually blame the shooter, his motivations, and him directly, as the author of his own actions? Who can truly investigate the causes of mass shootings, or 9-11, or any other catastrophe, correctly and accurately? Meanwhile average people, with average intelligence, will ascribe (false) causes to events, or people’s motivations, in order to push underlying political agendas?