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"Blame storming" by Erik Pevernagie, 100 x 130 cm, oil on canvas xx

Before delving into a problem, many people often want to draw hasty conclusions and take a stand before identifying the comprehensive circumstances and backgrounds. Making decisions gives them a good feeling and reduces their stress while unwillingly realizing they are in the grip of laziness or boredom.

If brainstorming becomes 'blamestorming' because of time pressure or pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified.

Blamestorming becomes then downright a dishonest appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for 'culprits on duty.'

While we expect everybody to tell the downright truth, many are muddying the water, drowning questions in a river of words, and trying to make us forget the real issue.

If paltering and deflecting matters become a new way of telling the truth, interaction might be doomed to culminate in a cluster shell of suspicion. Mutual trust becomes then frantically undermined.

Very often, feelings replace cold facts. If thinking and reason crack under the pressure of sentiment, and when commissioned points result from fibs and fake constructions, the truth is in great peril.

In our quests, our intuition can be very helpful. Intuition listens to an inner voice and responds to an instant sentiment that may checkmate reason. It is only in hindsight that its soundness or fallibility is proven.

If some prefer to abandon ethical procedures because of practicality or pure sluggishness, society deserves protection against random and unconsidered judicial actions. The social network must be shielded from the danger of "untruth."

Phenomenon: Commissioned facts, emotion, truth, scapegoat, justice, ethics

Factual starting pointː Two police-like personae confronting a situation.