Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. - Cornell West on the Colbert Report What do you think of this statement?
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Really, I think his statement is assuming that the evil doer is somehow on a lesser plane than the non-evil doer, so the non-evil doer should be held to the higher standard of proactively trying to stop the bad act. I assume all people are ethically equal, and therefore actively doing something wrong is worse than passively doing nothing.
I do, however, like that he brought it up, since many people do try to hide behind the fact that they weren't technically the one who committed the greatest wrong, thereby trying to claw their way onto high ground they're not entitled to. Many Nazi war criminals tried that: "but I was just following orders!" I don't think you can go so far as to call yourself innocent if you could have done more to stop a bad act.
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If one person does something evil, that's one evil thing. If one person ignores everytime another person does something evil, well that's an infinite number of wrongdoings. But, who gets to be the judge of what is evil and what isn't?
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In fact there is another famous poem about indifference in the Holocaust:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
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