"Shane Mage" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 10:06 PM, [email protected] wrote: Morality applies to people, not the emergent institutions of society like government, state, and bureaucracy. > "Institutions" have no agency. That is precisely why moral principles don't apply to them. > Actions ascribed to them are in reality the actions of people. When people have a role in an institution, they are acting in the interest of the institution, not themselves. > The holocaust was not the act of any institution--it was the act of "big" and > "little" people like Hitler, > Eichmann, Demjanjuk--every one of whom was individually morally responsible > just as Obama is individually > morally responsible for every drone murder. So everyone that voted for Hitler or Obama was violating a moral principal? A moral code has to be established (written) before it can be followed. -- Ron
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