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> Are they ignorant, apathetic, or malicious? Nice use of the 'false choice' rhetorical device. I'm not sure why you think that every employee of a large orga
by gwright 13y ago
> Are they ignorant, apathetic, or malicious?
Nice use of the 'false choice' rhetorical device.
I'm not sure why you think that every employee of a large organization is somehow ideologically synchronized, operationally involved, and morally responsible for every policy decision made by the organization.
That isn't even true in small organizations, never mind large need-to-know organizations.
- Karunamon 13y agoIt's not a false choice. This is the government, not a random factory somewhere making random widgets where the biggest ethical problem a person may face is whether to report their boss for embezzling. This is a lot bigger. You needn't be ideologically synchronized or operationally involved to be complicit in oiling the machine responsible for the crimes that keep coming out recently. Moral responsibility comes in when you decide to take money from these people instead of deciding to yourself "You know, maybe I don't want to be part, however small, of crimes against the public". And that takes it right back to ignorance, apathy, or malice.