Solipsism

[Doobah47]

Another angle: if something occurs, is it my fault?

Central patterns in the universe dictating that everybody is the God of their own experience of existence...

[Rose]

Not fault - responsibility. We need to take responsibility for our own words and actions. Beyond that it is someone else’s responsibility.

[Rose]

Thanks everyone. You helped make that a lot clearer.

[Doobah47]

Well no, only a solipsist could say that there is no structural responsibility one the part of one for somebody else's action. For example if you leave a cigarette on the floor, and somebody spills some brandy then somebody else goes out without checking then whose fault is it when the house burns down? It's an issue of structural events, not simply blaming the last responsible person.

For example, if I eat a piece of smoked mackerel am I responsible for the mass death of sea life, global warming and drug trafficking? Well partly, but only as one of many - in society solipsism has little place except in cases of prooving guilt in courts, and that is entirely unjustified.