Does knowing who's to BLAME help SOLVE the PROBLEM?

Answer 1

blame---To find fault with
A comment expressing fault.
the easiet thing is to blame others. yes, at times for no fault of yours you are made a scapegoat. there is no doubt we blame more than appreciating. it's the human instinct to blame. if everything goes right no one gives you credit. but when you go wrong , you are made to feel small.
blaming in no way solves the problem. no one is perfect. every one makes mistakes. just be magnanimous to forgive. life will be wonderful. love, forgive and forget solves the problem.

Answer 2

Hi Enki,
An apology might help RESOLVE the ISSUE once someone has been found to have made a mistake/error and admits it but this won't solve the problem.
Knowing who's to blame without them realising it or admitting to having caused an inconvenience/blunder does not really help solve the problem.
Looking for someone to blame when things go wrong instead of just moving forward and working on a way to fix things, won't solve the problem.
Knowing who's to blame (after having eliminated it was not a 'what' but a 'who' that caused the problem), how where and when they went wrong and making an effort to put it all right: that just might help solve the problem.
Pollyanna

Answer 3

"A bad carpenter always blames his tools"

I found that in a lot of cases, the act of one person putting the blame on another is a way to deflect from having to shoulder the responsibility of resolving the problem in question. For instance, the way an incompetent leader would blame a blunder on his subordinates, when it was also his responsibility to supervise them in the first place.

The act of assigning blame often ignores the fact that the problem - no matter the cause - has already been brought about and no amount of arguing over who should take the blame would ever reverse that fact. The most important thing to consider is how to resolve the matter at hand, and move on.

Although discovering the roots from which the problem had sprung up from is also an important step in making a recovery, it is however often observed that an organizational mistake had stemmed from the accumulative mistakes originating from several and different sources, and not from one, single source.

It would always be wise that instead of looking for a scapegoat, we could try to look into ourselves and self-reflect on our actions, and accept the fact that as human beings, we could all make erroneous judgments and calls. The most important thing is that we try to do our best, and be the best person we can be.

“To err is Human, but to forgive is Divine…”

Answer 4

As usual, jach v gave you a very good answer.
I'd like to put it a little differently than the answers I've seen so far.
"Blame" isn't ALWAYS that easy to identify, & one can go around in circles just as easily blaming themselves as another. (Blatant blame is easy--I saw you take my money out of my wallet!)
Responsibiity, now there's another thing. It's not as harsh a word. But if you KNOW that someone is responsible for causing you harm, then of course you can cope with them, avoid them, protect yourself from them or whatever. Depending on how you handled this, yes, you could solve the problem. But, just blaming with not 100% proof can sometimes be a "It all started when I hit you back," or, "It's all your fault!" I honestly don't believe you're that kind of person.
You know the answer, don't you????

Edit: Just a comment on angel baby--"To find the truth is to solve the problem" seems a good suggestion. As long as we're sure about the truth.

Answer 5

Well, Legally YES! However, sometimes there can be many other people who instigated the guilty party to cause the problem. Therefore, ones at fault behind the scenes tend to go unpunished. For Example, if I spread a Rumour that a Politician was corrupt to the Media, and they informed the public and it spread like a fire, then this politician was assasinated over it or had his public image ruined....Legally, in court I would have charges pressed for initializing it and possible other charges, but shouldn't the media and group networks have pending charges?? Without a Doubt, they wouldn't be charged. What Stands is My initial Remarks and The Blamees Problem. Yes, Legally it 'helps'

'Knowing who Started the Fire, Deters Future Arsony Minds to Either Rethink or Pay the Consequences Behind Bars or being Fined!!!!!!!

Answer 6

Not to me. It seems like when there is a problem it doesn't matter who is to blame. Like last week when my husband scraped the side of the van on a pole in the back yard. He blamed our daughter because he was hauling some stuff of hers, then he blamed the sun for shining in the mirror making a glare. I told him the only one to blame is him because he was driving. He actually told me a couple monthes ago to watch out for the pole. If he would have cut off the pole like he said he would, he would have ran into a pussywillow bush and had no damage.
So it was really all his fault even though he really didn't want to admit it.
So having him to blame did not solve the problem, we still had to take it to a body shop and have $1200 of repairs done.

Answer 7

Not at all because the mistake has already been done. It would only worsen the situation because everyone would be defending himself against it...leaving a trail of grumble and resentment which would only affect each other's work or day for that matter. A problem can never be corrected through pointing fingers, but rather through cooperative efforts. What should be done is to analyze what has gone wrong and come up with measures that could avoid such error again.

It's always better to lend a hand than lift a finger.

Answer 8

Quite the opposite. Blame is a method to avoid solving the problem. It even helps to prevent forgiveness. If you don't want to change something, just blame it on someone else.

Answer 9

Absolutely not. The only thing that helps solve a problem is seeking a solution, and being willing to do what it takes to implement the solution. The thing that helps to PREVENT similar problems from arising again is not finding out who to blame, but figuring out our part in what happened, and determining how we can do things different next time we are faced with a similar situation.

Answer 10

Knowing who to blame helps you understand more about that person and other people. This way you are more guarded against a person who fits within that profile.

Solving the problem is a matter of the problem itself. If it is an ongoing problem then you need to understand that person and figure out how to avoid being hurt.

If it is a one time hurt you need to accept the fact that it HAS ALREADY happened and that hanging on to the problem will hurt more than the problem itself.

It's kinda like that scene from the Lion King, remember when the monkey whacks the lion? "What does it matter its in the past.?"

Learn from the mistake, learn from the type of person who is hurting or hurt you, then make sure your prepared to avoid that situation or similar ones.