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complicit: “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act.” If you feel that the act is questionable, you know that you are involved, and you choos
by trevyn 6y ago
complicit: “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act.”
If you feel that the act is questionable, you know that you are involved, and you choose to remain involved, you are complicit.
Trying to morally distance yourself by coming up with justifications is self-hypnosis. Which is fine, but it’s deceiving yourself.
- kmlx 6y agoyeah, they're using the wrong word as there's nothing questionable going on. how people "feel" on the other hand...
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoShould Google and everyone else also stop paying taxes, because they fund the police?
- trevyn 6y agoIf you are assuming that this would be absurd, that assumption and the belief system it rests on may be preventing you from seeing and understanding what is happening. There is a long history of people doing personally uncomfortable things after checking their internal moral compass.
- luckylion 6y ago> If you feel that the act is questionable The "act" of law enforcement in general? Is anyone (a few very confused people aside) even arguing that?