Blame - Conformity and Moral Excuses

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

People rarely see themselves as the problem. We judge strangers by character and ourselves by context, excuse harm with clever labels, blame victims, obey authority, stay silent in groups and unite against a target. These shorts name those patterns.

Judging Others by Character and Yourself by Circumstances

Published 2026-07-17 · Watch the short

When someone cuts you off in traffic you think they are a reckless idiot, but when you cut someone off you think you are just late and stressed. The psychologist Lee Ross named this in 1977 the fundamental attribution error. The short says we explain other people’s behavior by their character and our own by our circumstances.

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Blame - Conformity and Moral Excuses

Judging Others by Character and Yourself by Circumstances