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by kelseyfrog
319 days ago
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If you build the Torment Nexus, it might even be ever so slightly less tormentful[1] than it otherwise could have been because you're a good person, perhaps even slightly better than most. This thing you eventually come to believe, of course, is exactly what one must believe for the Torment Nexus to be made. Sure, there are structural and economic incentives that tilt the playing field, but this is the belief that is easier to accept than to turn down the high pay, deal with the hassles of insurance or lack of, or have to encounter the immigration authority. 1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tormentful |
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> In the tumultuous discussion of moral issues which has been going on since the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the disclosure of the total complicity in crimes of all ranks of official society, that is, of the total collapse of normal moral standards, the following argument has been raised in endless variations: We who appear guilty today are in fact those who stayed on the job in order to prevent worse things from happening; only those who remained inside had a chance to mitigate things and to help at least some people; we gave the devil his due without selling our soul to him, whereas those who did nothing shirked all responsibilities and thought only of themselves, of the salvation of their precious souls… (p 34)
But, ultimately, she finds the excuse lacking:
> Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil. (p 36)
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