Journal #6

There are many possible repercussions for blaming someone for something that they did not do. They obviously know that they did not do it, so they will be trying to prove that they are innocent of whatever they have been accused of. They will be fighting with everything that the accuser has said, and they will not go down, if they are blamed by everyone else, without a fight. They also may know that you did it, and they may try to put the blame back on you. They would try to prove that you were the one who did all the bad actions, and there is a chance that they may succeed. If they succeed, the whole town will blame you for the bad things that you did, and they may take many measures against you. They may kick you out of the town, put you in jail, put you on house arrest, or do a number of other things to you. Whatever they do, they will be extremely upset with you, and the repercussions could possibly be worse than if you had just told the truth to the community. While you may have been punished, there is a good chance that you will receive a lesser punishment than if you had lied and said someone else did it but the whole community found you out and uncovered the truth. If your lie pays off, though, you will get off completely free, while the poor person that you blamed will receive all of the punishment that you should have gotten. It is possible that one may feel guilty because of this, and they may eventually confess, but there is a very slim chance that that would happen. When most people blame someone else, they do it because they do not want to be found out, not because they are planning on confessing later. There are a ton of possible repercussions that could come from putting the blame on someone else, and the majority of them are very bad.