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.’

by Elizabeth Coleman 29th April 2022

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.