Our need to give simple and vague labels to large groups of individual actions and events relieves a potential mental burden by reducing the need for critical thinking in hiding away details that always differentiate one set of circumstances from another. Ironically, this desire for consistency results in inconsistent reactions and attitudes because no two actions are identical. It is nonsense to pretend they are in order to give us mindless permission to apply the same reactions to a designated category of actions. When it comes to human behavior, there are simply too many variables in play to assert one event is equivalent to another. Our reactions to any event should be appropriate its uniqueness.
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