The rational person does not sacrifice his or her own interests and desires in order to be admired, but rather strives to express them, with outflowing creativity. A person must be perfectly competent, adequate and achieving to be worthwhile. This again is an impossibility, and to strive compulsively for it results in a constant fear of failure, and paralysis at attempting anything. Perfectionistic standards quickly alienate partner and friends. People who do wrong must be bad.
All people are fallible and make mistakes.
Blame and punishment do not usually result in a less stupid, better informed and less neurotic personality. If a rational person makes a mistake, he or she accepts that it happened and attempts to understand the cause of the behaviour, and does not let it become a catastrophe. He accepts responsibility and learns what the mistake can teach him. He does not seek to justify or blame. At the same time, behaviour and ethics can and must be judged, if law and order are to prevail.