If there is something bad going on, and you're aware of it, and you could (try to) stop it, and you don't, are you complicit in that bad act? Are you being somewhat immoral/unethical?
The crunch has to be in that 'could'. How do you define 'could'? 'Could' as in if you set aside all your other priorities and devoted time and energy to just this? Or 'could' as in fitting it around your other needs and obligations? That difference is how most of us sleep at night.
Think of it like charities. You could theoretically give to any charity. But you cannot give to every charity. At some point you have to make a decision about the extent and direction of the charitable giving you do and the charitable giving that you do not do.
I also think the world is too complicated to think in terms of bad and good. You just have to try to lighten your own shade of grey as far as possible.
So turning a blind eye is 'bad' but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Sometimes it is a very sensible choice. And sometimes of course it isn't.
Personally, I try to make each decision on an individual basis depending on the current circumstances and the people involved, because if I tried to make rules for myself I would probably forget half of them.
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The crunch has to be in that 'could'. How do you define 'could'? 'Could' as in if you set aside all your other priorities and devoted time and energy to just this? Or 'could' as in fitting it around your other needs and obligations? That difference is how most of us sleep at night.
Think of it like charities. You could theoretically give to any charity. But you cannot give to every charity. At some point you have to make a decision about the extent and direction of the charitable giving you do and the charitable giving that you do not do.
I also think the world is too complicated to think in terms of bad and good. You just have to try to lighten your own shade of grey as far as possible.
So turning a blind eye is 'bad' but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Sometimes it is a very sensible choice. And sometimes of course it isn't.
Personally, I try to make each decision on an individual basis depending on the current circumstances and the people involved, because if I tried to make rules for myself I would probably forget half of them.