- One of the obvious benefits of knowing the consequences of your actions is happiness with the good outcomes. For example, if one of the key requirements for your happiness is to have a positive and meaningful relationship with your children, then you can perform actions that produce this consequence. Having the knowledge that spending time with them and communicating positively will likely have the consequence of a good relationship enables you to gain the benefit you want to be happy.
- An obvious benefit of being able to see the consequences of your actions is that you can enhance your personal safety. For example, quite clearly running onto a busy road will likely lead to serious injury or death; so, knowing that the consequences of this action are disastrous will lead you to not perform it. Similarly, having knowledge that treating a dangerous gas in a certain way can cause it to explode puts you at a great advantage over someone who does not possess this knowledge and may be injured as a result.
- Knowing the consequences of your actions leads to a consistency in life, and consistency lends itself to stability and security. When you don't know the consequences of your actions, you have no certainty as to what may happen if an action is performed. Therefore life becomes uncertain and inconsistent.
- Knowing the consequences of your actions makes you more able to take responsibility for them. Knowing that eating a lot of fatty foods may make you obese means you are able to acknowledge the cause-and-effect nature of your actions and take responsibility to change them. You have control, while people who do not know the connection and get obese have no control over changing their undesirable state.
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