What Is Murray One-Sided Individual

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Murray is a one-sided individual, thinking that everyone can be categorized into two groups, essentially his version of good and bad, Murray sees people in black and white, good and bad, instead of the many shades of gray that they truly are. In Murray’s head anyone that in against him is the enemy, he is always the good guy and everyone else is evil no matter what his actions are. To Murray things like planning things out and making lists are for boring people, this shows that to Murray that the only way to live a good life is to do everything in the moment. He doesn’t think of the consequences that his actions will cause before he acts the way he does. Murray refuses to take the blame for his actions or think about what he does, this has

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