> people in a social system People interacting with other people. Which is why good things to do are, as you said > Give money to support organisations doing

> people in a social system People interacting with other people. Which is why good things to do are, as you said > Give money to support organisations doing proper investigative journalism, educate yourself on political issues and educate your friends so fewer voters will be swayed by populist rhetoric, volunteer to do some menial task so resources can be put towards longer-term goals. because that's kinda interacting as a molecule, with the other molecules of the social system -- not "the body as a whole", which is more an idea than anything one could do in practice. > Economic constraints, or opportunity costs, or the time required to establish consensus all put limits on what people can do, and often require people to do nothing, or even negative things That's absolutely not the case for Relotius. Jörg Thadeusz is actually pretty pissed off at those excuses, he says they need to end and I agree. https://www.welt.de/kultur/medien/article185920966/Podcast-Wie-sehr-schadet-der-Fall-Relotius-dem-Spiegel.html https://www.welt.de/kultur/medien/article185920966/Podcast-W... For every excuse, you can often find dozens, hundreds, thousands or millions of people who are in the same or worse situation as the excusee, but have not resorted to what they're excusing.