Scapegoat: Bullying and Exactly Scapegoating Looks
Audelia Garcia
Professor Thweatt
English-102
April 26 2012
“Scapegoat”
For centuries scapegoating has exist, as a society we use it in order to blame somebody else for our own mistakes it is also seen as a human habit. Scapegoating has been as an escape form for human beings, when something bad happens, society look for a person or victim to blame on, instead of them to be blamed. As people we discard the idea to be blamed, therefore we adopt scapegoating as a habit, unfortunately as humans it is very hard to accept our own mistakes. When we blamed someone else for our own misfortunes, the only thing we have in consideration, is the idea of not be blamed, but we never think on the consequences that the person would have to pass thorough. A lot of people might think that scapegoating doesn’t exist anymore or that we as a society don’t apply it more often, but suddenly we use it unconsciously, because it has become as an instinct.
Throughout the time society have been used as scapegoats at least once, or have adopted this technique in order to distance themselves from their mistakes. Scapegoating has existed for centuries within our society, it might change as we have progressed through the time, but it’s still the same concept. Scapegoating is also described or announce even in the bible, according to Leviticus xvi, which describes a how scapegoating comes from. This passage of the bible narrates that scapegoat was adopted and created by Israelite, not a modification of pre-Israelite, focusing on the biblical occasion when Joseph's brothers seek forgiveness for their offence against Joseph; thereby they were to be transferred to the beast for their own wrongdoing. (The Origin of the Scapegoating Ritual). On the other hand another biblical statement shows that scapegoat is also derived from the old testament in which “Old Testament practice in which the high priest lays his hands upon a goat that is chosen by lot and, under the belief that the guilt of the
Professor Thweatt
English-102
April 26 2012
“Scapegoat”
For centuries scapegoating has exist, as a society we use it in order to blame somebody else for our own mistakes it is also seen as a human habit. Scapegoating has been as an escape form for human beings, when something bad happens, society look for a person or victim to blame on, instead of them to be blamed. As people we discard the idea to be blamed, therefore we adopt scapegoating as a habit, unfortunately as humans it is very hard to accept our own mistakes. When we blamed someone else for our own misfortunes, the only thing we have in consideration, is the idea of not be blamed, but we never think on the consequences that the person would have to pass thorough. A lot of people might think that scapegoating doesn’t exist anymore or that we as a society don’t apply it more often, but suddenly we use it unconsciously, because it has become as an instinct.
Throughout the time society have been used as scapegoats at least once, or have adopted this technique in order to distance themselves from their mistakes. Scapegoating has existed for centuries within our society, it might change as we have progressed through the time, but it’s still the same concept. Scapegoating is also described or announce even in the bible, according to Leviticus xvi, which describes a how scapegoating comes from. This passage of the bible narrates that scapegoat was adopted and created by Israelite, not a modification of pre-Israelite, focusing on the biblical occasion when Joseph's brothers seek forgiveness for their offence against Joseph; thereby they were to be transferred to the beast for their own wrongdoing. (The Origin of the Scapegoating Ritual). On the other hand another biblical statement shows that scapegoat is also derived from the old testament in which “Old Testament practice in which the high priest lays his hands upon a goat that is chosen by lot and, under the belief that the guilt of the