If someone’s actions are hurtful, but attributable to a specific cause, then it’s easy to consider the perpetrator a victim of circumstance themselves.
Good people don’t just decide one day to be bad.
However, if their actions are caused by many different experiences, cause is harder to see and quantify.
But does our lack of understanding mean their circumstances were any less overbearing?
A person’s influences aren’t contingent on our recognition or understanding.
Isn’t everyone’s output the product of the cards they’ve been dealt?
Is an action that’s the product of a million causes any less deterministic than an action that has a single, verifiable, one?
No choices are made in a vacuum.
But where does that leave us when we’re angry?