“The generally valuable tendency to conform, not to break ranks conspicuously, not to attract attention to oneself, and to do one’s job and obey official instructions without substituting one’s own personal judgment can be put to the service of monstrous ends, and can maintain in power the most appalling regimes. The same procedural correctness that inhibits people from taking bribes may also turn them into obedient participants in well-organized official policies of segregation, deportation, and genocidal extermination. The problem is whether it is possible to have the benefits of conformity and bureaucratic obedience without the dangers.”
— Thomas Nagel, Equality and Partiality (via philosophybits)
We need a modern military but anyone can see the Republikkkans are looting the treasury for the benefit of themselves and their corporate billionaire overlords.
