Actually, what you're proposing is a cognitive blind spot that is indicative of depression. I forget what the name of it is, but taking every minor setback or chance occurrence to be indicative of a fundamental, unchangeable character flaw is a symptom of depression.
I believe this is the psychology field of attribution theory, in particular fundamental attribution errors[1].
From the article, the parent's "alternate conclusions" seem to be regarded as cognitive biases, while the "bad conclusions" are more objective and psychologically healthy.
So congrats, rsync, if you're "guilty yourself", you're in good psychological shape, according to wikipedia :)
If you tell yourself that random acts of the universe are your fault, thats depression.
If you tell yourself that random acts of the universe are someone elses fault, thats paranoia (assuming sane observation that its truly a random act of the universe)
If you tell someone else that a random act of the universe is their fault, thats just primate dominance rituals, it doesn't mean anything and can be ignored. See it as a management technique all the time. Its easier to detect when the judgment is being made well inside the error bars of a metric, but its just as valid outside of course.
