Out of order? Elizabeth Coleman on personal responsibility
‘When people are free to act according to their own moral compass, they show more wisdom and humanity.’
Some decades ago, a Quaker called Rachel Pinney taught me the slogan ‘Obedience is a sin’. She said that, in her experience, much more evil happened because people were obedient to authority than because they rebelled. She told of surgeons who drank heavily and were a danger to their patients, but nothing was done because their subordinates would not report them.
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