Would You Still Be Angry If You Knew He Was Blind?

Doing The Work from Naples Integrated Recovery · Aug 27, 2026 · 40m

Rage becomes easier to justify when we assume another person fully understands the harm they are causing and chooses it anyway. The image of a blind man knocking someone to the ground offers another possibility: some people keep crashing into the world because they genuinely cannot see what they are doing. Compassion asks us to understand that blindness while still naming the damage, protecting ourselves, and imposing consequences. The groceries are still broken, and someone still has to clean them up.

Compassion also becomes complicated when recovery programs, religious teachings, or…