If you worked for a company that did wrongs, that did harm, that did evil, and you helped them do what they do, would you be culpable for what you aided them to do? Whether you know it or not, are you guilty of furthering their creation of harm?
Forget about ignorance as an excuse, because it isn't. If you are involved in creating harm but don't know it, you are still involved in it. Courts don't accept blind ignorance as an excuse.
Forget about "just doing my job" as an excuse. That was tried after WWII and was rejected by the Nuremberg trials for a good reason. Because it's bullshit.
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Sadly though, many people do what they do just because they get paid. Some issues might be noticed, questionable practices, or actually recognizing wrong doing, but they keep being a part of the organization, just so they can collect a paycheck. As long as they get paid in order to survive, then they keep doing it because they "need the job". Forget about finding another job and have a backbone to make a change from what they participate in. That option just doesn't seem possible to some.
Let's say all you made were wheels. Just making wheels and getting paid. But those are tank wheels that are used to go invade another country and steal their resources. Are you culpable at all? You didn't go invade someone, right? But what if you didn't do that job. What if no one did that job. Would there we tank wheels at all? No.
A lot can change in the world if certain things are not being made by people. But that would require they go find another job, and we all hate looking for another job. What if there is no other job, then we can't survive. So we keep doing what we do unless we can find job security somewhere else.
We are stuck in many ways through economic survivability, whereby we have to do things we might be aware are not helping and may even be harming others. As long as their is a "demand" for something to be made, many of us shirk off the responsibility for what we are doing in the larger picture. If someone is willing to pay for it, someone will make it. "Why would I quit my job in order for someone else to take it, nothing will change anyways, so I might as well just keep doing it."
Is being part of corrupted organization justifiable? What about police that cover up for each other by some "blue code" they have, where they and their "kind" protect each other before standing up for what is right, good and true? Blue comes first, not citizens.
Just look at how they deal with someone being killed. If it's a regular person, they try to solve it. If it's a fellow blue blood, then they treat the killing for much more intensity and fervor, hunting down a "cop-killer" as if it's more egregious to kill a cop that to kill someone else,a s if it matters so much more when a cop is killed than when a non-cop is killed. They clearly value themselves as a group much more than the rest of the whole of society they are supposedly tasked to protect.
They are deeply entrenched in identification with the job and an in-group vs. out-group dynamic. This mindset is demonstrated by how they mistreat many non-police, as many have become aware of in recent times thanks to the Internet. And when they harm people, they get slaps on the wrist, paid leaves and only in some cases do they have real consequences applies.
When a blue blood abuses their power, cover for them. And don't stand up for truth otherwise and speak out against the crimes of your fellow "boys in blue", because then you're a rat and they will hate on you for daring to "betray" their special blue code of blind loyalty to the fraternity. Serpico demonstrates this failure to live by what's right.
An organization that is supposedly there to protect people by some moral standards, are not really moral. They follow "laws" to uphold, whether they are moral or not, and aren't required to help others according to court rulings. How can we trust such an organization when they reject doing what's right and cover up for each others wrongdoings?
They follow orders, not their own moral conscience to uphold what is right from wrong. If they go against orders, they get reprimands and can be fired. How can anyone work for such an organization that puts orders above morality, that puts the blue code above morality, that puts protecting their in-group above protecting and upholding the rights of the rest of society?
Are all police culpable for letting the corruption continue when they are witness to it, because it's anathema to speak about your fellow blue bloods in a negative way? You are coerced into silence from talking about the wrongdoings of other police. Because if you do, you will get shunned, ostracized and even harmed by others who blindly follow the corrupted blue code to not talk against fellow in-group members. By being silent, they are complicit in supporting the overall behavior of wrongdoings, even if they don't do it themselves. Their silence allows it to perpetuate.
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