Who To Blame?

I was on the bus this morning and this guy across from me wouldn't stop coughing. I declared a war on germs. My weapon: give everyone on the bus a cough suppressant. Although the germs are the true enemy, the humans are the inert vessels at which the virus highjacks to further their own cause. How do you fight germs without fighting people? Does the intention of the virus transcribe onto the human? Is the human in any way at all responsible for the viruses actions? In essence, is what the human being punished for a result of some type of carelessness that they engaged in to acquire the virus? Many things can result from ignorance - can ignorance be seen as a problem?

You can take the logic of this example and run with it. For example, many have defined religion as a mimetic virus that attaches itself to a host human. In the most extreme cases, we see the cause of religious fundamentalism as a seed of human intention and thought but we don't go any further and presume that perhaps it isn't the human that is causing the thought but rather the mimetic virus. Who do we persecute in this example? How much control do humans have over viruses? Should I punish you for coughing? What if the locus of control that incites these negative behaviours lies within an innocent host? How do we separate the two?

increase- eating and opening doors with non-dominant hand.
- positive thinking in neutral situations
- water intake
- journal reflections

decrease - bouts of rage
- chicken wing intake
- fat thoughts and fat foods

The Mulitple Realizability of Self Loathing.

I always wondered if my own dissatisfaction with my singing voice was at all any reflection or manifestation of a dissatisfaction with my Self? Perhaps only in fully accepting your person hood do your own perceptions of Self equalize and eventually grow to a pure acceptance of Self. In other words, the closer you are to being able to idealize your self in a 'healthy' way, the easier it becomes to develop an acceptance to a certain aspect of yourself like vocal expression. Similarly, it's like being dissatisfied with one's own grammatical style. These are just different ways of looking into a mirror.