Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25409301-20140911182738/@comment-397235-20140914013758

Murphy's Law governs accidents. Izumi knows Mei's breaking the rules; therefore, the deaths caused that year are not accidents: they're the result, so far as she knows, of Mei breaking the rules. Expecting her not to act on that information is roughly the equivalent of asking her not to be human. Humans get angry when someone else causes them to fail. That's human nature, and it's the same if you're fifteen or twenty-five.

I'd have been pissed off too, and like I said, Mei doesn't exactly make things better by accepting responsibility for something that's not her fault.

There's a term for what that argument. It's called Learned Helplessness.

Wikipedia defines it this way:

''In learned helplessness studies, an animal is repeatedly exposed to an aversive stimulus which it cannot escape. Eventually, the animal stops trying to avoid the stimulus and behaves as if it is helpless to change the situation. When opportunities to escape become available, learned helplessness means the animal does not take any action.''

Basically, Mei has been the victim for so long even when an opportunity presents itself for her to be assertive, she ignores it. She's learned she has no control over her own fate so she really doesn't care anymore.