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Vol.52
Personality and Responsibility |
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Jun.05,2019 |
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In Japan, there are old sayings (proverbs) like "The child is the father
of the man" and "Genius displays
itself even in childhood." Both
of them imply that people are
born with personality traits as
characters. Meanwhile, there is
also the saying "Birth is much
but breeding is more," which
represents that an environment
where children are raised is
important.
People
also face many turning points in
their lives. Turning points
include going to college,
starting working, friendship,
love, marriage, divorce,
bereavement, accident, incident,
irretrievable mistake, betrayal,
and even getting a helping hand
in trouble. Every time people go
through these turning points,
they are shaped by joy, sorrow,
disappointment, and inspiration.
That is to say that
personalities are complexly
structured as they are developed
based on natural-born characters
and a growth environment through
experiences when becoming
independent and turning points
after starting working.
Like
I mentioned in Vol. 2 "What is
life all about?" before, it is
difficult to evaluate the lives
of other people, particularly
people with many experiences,
whose mentalities are too
complicated to sometimes
understand.
To
maintain human society, however,
we still need to evaluate other
people, and the country still
need to judge criminals. People
are evaluated and judged based
on what they said and what they
did because human responsibility
lies in these two perspectives.
In conclusion, I think that each
person's psychological
conditions and processes leading
to results are almost unknown to
others and do not matter a lot
in evaluation and judgment.
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