RE: Who are more culpable for inequality and injustice, the people who make rules and laws or the people who follow and enforce them? Is the notion "I'm just doing my job" ethical?: EcoTrain Question Of The Week
great to see you join us this week @kryptocoin! Great response, and good to see a definition of culpable as well.. I think you are the second person to bring up hitler, and what better example. builderofcastles just wrote a post questioning the idea that people should put their lives at risk to go against a regime, and that really got me thinking.. this is a HARD question, and requires quite some ability to OWN our shit to really look at it in the cold light of day.
CPS is of course another incredible example, that is even more pertinent because its happening today on mass scale. .. and people are just going around destroying families so that they can keep getting funds to continue their 'jobs'.
standby for my response to this one.. a real hard one!
Thank you Alex, like I said I my post that this question would always shift from an already decided answer as you get to look at it. The more you look the more your answer changes. Yes it's a hard one, but it was and is a necessary one!.
Well, I read @builderofcastles post and I can understand what he is driving at since he took this picture to a much higher level, but I don't think hanging everyone in DC would solve anything, it might only bring a momentary solution, I do think though we have a lot to figure out. And we have to do this together. Violence shouldn't be the option we fall back on to deal with a nation's mess. Many enforcers willfully break a law to promote injustice and inequality even when a said law is very foundationally strong and people-breathed. I believe Violence isn't the answer, We are The Answer.
Once again, thanks my dear friend.