I agree with you. We're all complicit in this though. Mark Passio was the first to get me to realize that in most, if not all cases, the "elite" are not guilty of any sin. They merely speak or write a sequence of words in the form of an order and some otherwise virtuous man or woman commits an act of evil while convincing themself that they have no choice because they're "just following orders". It's we who are the sinners.
I haven't hired you, I've just told you to do it. Please don't think that I'm defending the people instigating or encouraging evil, I'm only drawing attention to our willingness to do bad things because someone told us to.
If everyone followed the ten commandments there'd be no murder or any need for a manmade law against conspiring to commit murder. The actual sin/crime is the act, not anything preceding it.
I agree with you. We're all complicit in this though. Mark Passio was the first to get me to realize that in most, if not all cases, the "elite" are not guilty of any sin. They merely speak or write a sequence of words in the form of an order and some otherwise virtuous man or woman commits an act of evil while convincing themself that they have no choice because they're "just following orders". It's we who are the sinners.
If I tell you to kill a man and you do, have I sinned or have you?
I haven't hired you, I've just told you to do it. Please don't think that I'm defending the people instigating or encouraging evil, I'm only drawing attention to our willingness to do bad things because someone told us to.
If everyone followed the ten commandments there'd be no murder or any need for a manmade law against conspiring to commit murder. The actual sin/crime is the act, not anything preceding it.