MamaB --About personal responsibility

Posted by madwand on October 19, 2003, at 12:30:58

Hi MamaB,
I am making this a separately thread lest the "emotions" thread get overly tangled.
I am puzzled by something. You obviously believe that the person feeling an emotion is responsible for it (rather than the person who invited them to feel it) and as you can see from the emotions thread I agree with you. However, the whole thread started in admin because you objected to some people saying inappropriate things over on the med board and where that might lead people.
Doesn't the same standard apply? If those people are responsible for their emotions that arise as the result of other people's words or behavior, aren't they equally responsible for how they react to other communications from those people (questionable advice, boasting about drug use, etc.)?
In other words, why does personal responsibility stop with emotions?
Michael

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