Shit happens, we say. And sometimes it does. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes, shit doesn’t just happen. Sometimes, human beings deliberately create the conditions under which shit is more likely to occur. Nobody says it’s easy, knowing the difference between right and wrong. Is it what you INTEND that makes all the difference, or what actually HAPPENS as a result of what you do, no matter what you intend? Everybody makes mistakes, nobody can see into the future, and isn’t too great an eagerness to lay blame a moral failing too? I think about this story and wonder what it means. One thing, I think, is clear: I should go on full alert if I hear myself say, “I’m not the one who does harm; harm just happens around me.” Like it or not, I own the consequences of my acts. They’re mine. — Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox
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