A butterfly moving around doesn't offend, but it won't land on your hand and do what you want, and if it infests your house it does offend.


I'm saying, it's just people moving around.


"For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face."
When the figure in the mirror moves, who moved? The answer is obvious.

Are we responsible for other's movements?


If you will recognize that all the attack [disagreement] you perceive is in your
own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it
begins it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation.
...Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you
_project_ it, allowing [Your] Holy Spirit to _extend_ the real world to you from
the altar of God."
- A Course in Miracles, "The Holy Spirit's Curriculum" Chapter 12; "The Investment in Reality" Section 3


Basically if we are responsible for other's movements, we must be responsible for
other's thoughts:


"There is another vision and another voice in which your freedom lies, awaiting your choice. And if you place your faith in them, you will perceive another self
in you. This other self sees miracles as natural. They are as simple and as natural to it as breathing to the body. They are the obvious response to calls for help, the only one it makes. Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. Nor *could* they
do so. But minds cannot be separate. This other self is perfectly aware of this.
And thus it recognizes that miracles do not affect another's mind, only its own.
They always change *your* mind. There is no other."
- A Course in Miracles, "Reason and Perception" Chapter 21, "The Function of Reason" Section 5
"You do not realize the whole extent to which the idea of separation has interfered with reason."

When you get to the point that you "perceive another self in you," it is not as if
"outside," like separate from you and the ego, which is merely the thought of separation. But...

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