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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (12563)4/28/2001 3:43:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
When your whole society is turning in a certain way it takes remarkable individualists to resist. People who identify with groups and people who have a high need to belong to groups are simply not going to have the tools to stand apart from the group.
And that should not be accepted as an excuse at the time or a defense later.

If a situation is murky, maybe it is reasonable to say that the average individual gets a pass because of that- -as long as they did not engage in behaviour that is clearly wrong. But if the government has decided that extermination of some group is in order? No. If your neighbors have decided that courts take too long or are too uncertain and a lynching is needed? No.

If MT decides birth control and knowledge of it is to be denied in a country of 1 billion, most of whom are in poverty and many of whom are starving or one bad crop from it? No.
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