Moral Hazard
Fixing the resulting outcome (the effect), and not addressing the underlying action (the cause), only exacerbates destructive behavior. If we can go about our day, walking into busy traffic (the underlying action), and oncoming traffic stops due to an intervening source (the resulting outcome being altered by actions other than our own), then how are we ever supposed to learn that walking into oncoming traffic is in fact dangerous?
Only focusing on negating the resulting outcome, that is undoubtedly destined to occur if we allowed the natural progression of events, then we really aren’t solving anything. It just allows us more tolerance in making mistakes and errors, but it doesn’t allow you to focus on fixing the true underlying problem. And the underlying problem is what is hard to solve. The underlying problem is what traps us. The underlying problem is what prevents us from being truly free.
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Focusing on negating the outcome (which really just allows us to ignore the outcome), increases the proliferation of bad habits, which may cause a fall into a deep snowball effect. Once the medicine to mask the impending and inventible outcome is taken away, are we stronger? Or are we just left with an emboldened slew of bad habits?
The answer? Find the underlying problem (or problems), and face them head one. One by one.
