The butterfly effect. As per request on Twitter(yes, I am taking any responses). It has been a hot minute since I've heard this phrase. For anyone who needs the reminder, as per Google's definition, "the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere." In shorter terms, everything matters equally. You may think that you're just dropping a can in a lake. But then an animal mistakes it for food and eats it, this throws off the lake's ecosystem, and eventually, everything there dies. While you didn't directly cause the death of the lake, you aided in the series of events that did. It makes you think about everything really, you wind up weighing all of your actions with equal opportunities to cause damage. And I feel like applying that concept to human nature can be eye-opening.
Creation is a funny thing, in that nothing just happens. Everything has a reason. Everything that happens has its own place in the timespan of everything with a series of events that lead up to it. Acknowledging that even the most minuscule actions could have such a large effect on how a living being turns out could really help our world. Especially humans. Sometimes, yes, it is a birth disorder that's affecting how they view the world. But way too often, it's because someone refused to think their actions could have any lasting consequences.
This goes for both positive and negative outcomes. A random smile or compliment really can have a greater effect than you could even comprehend. Cleaning up a bit, focusing on yourself a little, offering a few words of encouragement. You can do so much for the world around you in just a few minutes. Will you notice immediately? Most of the time, no.
Also, science has been using this concept to cure and help people. As we learn about the human body and mind, we learn more about what causes things. Preventing these causes help prevent diseases, ailment, etc. We're discovering more about the mind and what causes mental illness. We can help to stop people from driving others to these conditions and also help to therapy someone back to health. When we know what is hurting a person, we can target it to help them.
This science extends to criminals. For decades, we've been studying what goes on in a violent criminal's mind. The goal is to see if we can find what triggers this to possibly prevent and/or remedy it. We'll see if we can set up a branch of mental care for them or if they need to be monitored from childhood. Maybe something happened in their lives that cause them to snap. Or maybe it's just something that people are born with.
Placing so much emphasis on the cause is important because it gives you a place to start. You have a target for treatment and a target for prevention. And targets, especially when improving the world, make the efforts a million times better. And, eventually, could make the world a million times better.
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Creation is a funny thing, in that nothing just happens. Everything has a reason. Everything that happens has its own place in the timespan of everything with a series of events that lead up to it. Acknowledging that even the most minuscule actions could have such a large effect on how a living being turns out could really help our world. Especially humans. Sometimes, yes, it is a birth disorder that's affecting how they view the world. But way too often, it's because someone refused to think their actions could have any lasting consequences.
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