It’s tempting to
tell yourself that we don’t have a problem. That you don’t have to get
involved. This doesn’t affect your community. It’s not actually that big of a
deal.
Look at these
numbers instead, a commenter whispers. But what about this other case or that
one, they say. I’m not an activist, you think. I don’t want to step on anyone’s
toes, I don’t want to make things political. Someone else can probably do a
better job.
These are lies.
All of them. And they are worse than just apathy or rationalization. As Marcus Aurelius reminded himself, we can commit
injustices by doing nothing too. When we try to tell ourselves that this is not
our fight, that this is not our problem, that someone else is more equipped to
get involved than we are—that’s what we are doing. We are not just allowing
injustice to continue, we are committing a new injustice by abandoning fellow
citizens or fellow humans who are asking for our help. They need our capital, they
need our bodies, they need our political pressure. That’s how change happens. That’s how things get done.
“One person’s
disengagement is untenable unless bolstered by someone else’s commitment,” Pericles famously said. If you decide not to vote because
voting seems so statistically insignificant, or you don’t speak out, if you let
things pass because you would rather avoid conflict, that might make your life
a little more peaceful, but the result is an incremental increase in the
suffering of others. By refusing to demand a solution, you are contributing to
the problem. By refusing to fight for that solution, you are asking others to
carry your part of the load.
That’s not
right. It’s not courageous. It’s not just. It’s not wise either.
We have to do this together. We have to see it as our fight. Because it is.
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