Ignore the "patch" thread

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Ataros

It feels so good to blame and punish others for your own decisions like upgrading a PC, purchasing CloD or downloading spyware from internet. Blaming others implies that they are bad guys but I am a much better guy compared to them. This is why it feels so good. E.g. dictators like Stalin or Hitler usually blamed and executed their generals for their own mistakes.

It is much more painful to take responsibility for a mistake and admit to yourself: "I can not pay attention when needed. I can not control my anxiety. I can not clearly think when excited. I need someone else like forum members or admins to tell me what to do because I can not make responsible decisions myself. I am not a grown up man yet."

No one can "get" you to purchase a game, upgrade a PC or download a file from internet. It is always you who make a bad decision unless you have a gun pointed at your head when you make it. Children do not make their own decisions of cause as adults make them for them. Then most of children grow up and learn to take responsibility.

I once heard an interview with a burglar in which he rejected all responsibility for his actions because his victim had inadvertently left a window open. In the burglar's mind this absolved him of any blame - after all if the victim did not want to be burgled why did he leave a window open?

Your argument strikes me as uncomfortably similar - and equally wrong.