Responsibility Versus Sacrifice

[RoyDalParticipant]

The world is full of people who want me to sacrifice myself for their cause.[1]

For example:

“I’m married, so why don’t you get married?”

In other words, “I’ve built this nice warm pyre, why don’t you fling yourself on top of it?”[2]

If you try to argue on their terms, they will say: “Not all blazing funeral pyres are like that. Anyway, all the other guys are doing it. Say, you’re not pyrophobic are you?”

It is impossible to talk them out of their position, or out of trying to impose it on you.

Since the invention of written records, and surely before that, people have tried to persuade or coerce others into doing their bidding. I think this is because they cannot run their own lives. Thus, they are failures in their own eyes and therefore miserable. They want the rest of us to be miserable too – miserable the same way they are. It’s not enough that I’m my own kind of miserable. Oh no, I have to drop what I’m doing and take up their misery.[3]

This brings me to RayBandaku’s Rule 5, the Responsibility rule. In my thinking, taking responsibility for one’s actions is equivalent to going one’s own way. Taking responsibility is not doing the bidding of another merely to advance an abstract ideology or gratify some broad’s latest whim. A MGHOW is not a lapdog.[4]

To me responsibility means this: If I do what they want – or don’t do it – that is because I chose it so. My choice, my decision. Mine alone.

A MGHOW does take full responsibility for his choices, his actions, and their consequences. He does not obey the whims of others. He absolutely rejects their attempts to shift the blame for their problems onto him.

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1. I read this in an article ages ago. I cannot find the original reference. I do recall it involved totalitarian takeovers. Hitler was big on this, only he put it in different words, and he made it sound like a good thing. He would, since totalitarian states depend on the willing sacrifices of the masses.

2. This topic is being explored in numerous threads on this forum and other forums too. Many men have come through the fire.

3. What really lights them up is if I am not miserable in the first place. It drives them wild with frustration. Like the saying goes, the best revenge is living well.

4. Not a sheep either, more like a shepherd with a flock of one – himself.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

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