Or maybe " serving the individual conscience had to be subservient, and if necessary bent, to the higher purposes of the community."
Harry
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Arthur wrote:
Ed said,
However, what I think what he was saying was that serving the individual conscience had to be subservient, and if necessary bent, to the higher purposes of the state.
arthur
Consider the number of corporate and government managers who have had to stifle their individual conscience in order to serve the higher purposes of the corporation/government as they do things they know to be "wrong." As they are involved in mass firings of people just to add to "stock values." ie., the bottom line. Eichmann can be seen in organizations everywhere when the goals of the abstract organizaiton take precedence over the pain of the individual.
I wouldn't be too hard on the Germans. A bit too convenient.
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