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how many levels of indirection does it take before you are no longer "morally and ethically bankrupt"? is the janitor at CIA partially responsible for extrajud

• mmirate 8y ago
  > is it morally bankrupt to pay federal income tax, a portion of which will finance the killing machines? To be fair, it could easily be said that we all engage in the morally bankrupt act of voting for politicians whose foreign policy ideals aren't as well-thought-out as Ron Paul's.
• eeZah7Ux 8y ago
  > is the janitor at CIA partially responsible for extrajudicial killings? Yes, obviously to a lower extent. > is it morally bankrupt to pay federal income tax, a portion of which will finance the killing machines? False dichotomy. Moral responsibility is not boolean. We take a hundreds of small decisions every day that have social implications. Obviously choosing to live, work, and pay taxes in countries with governments with a history of violence has moral implications.
  • mmirate 8y ago
    If you look back far enough, nearly every on-land government still extant today has a history of violence; be it that they conquered the land they inhabit, that they invaded their neighbors so that they might not be themselves invaded, that they were established due to their predecessors being violently overthrown, and so on. Governments really suck.