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Things are never that simple. There are often complicated situations that may prevent people from blowing the whistle (for example, people with families that r
by cle 12y ago
Things are never that simple. There are often complicated situations that may prevent people from blowing the whistle (for example, people with families that rely on their income). It's never as black-and-white as you make it seem, and automatically lumping everyone into the "guilty" or "evil" camp is unjustified (unless you know the specifics of the people you're condemning?).
- PeterisP 12y agoOf course, doing the right thing very often has a cost and self protecting behavior is very natural. I can very much understand why they likely chose to do a bad thing and I can't claim that given their specific circumstances I woudn't do the same in their shoes - but yes, it is still justified to claim that they did do a bad thing. Knowing the specifics of the people I'm condemning clarifies the justification and reasons for behaving the way they did but it cannot make their conscience clean. Having good personal reasons for behavior that hurts others is an understandable mitigating circumstance, but the actions should still be condemned by the wider society.
- pessimizer 12y agoSo we should excuse terrible actions because people may not be able to live at the standard which they enjoy without continuing to perpetrate them? That generally excuses larceny, burglary, robbery and fraud altogether, and excuses murder in special cases (for-profit or to protect profits.)