How can one know what to do? How can one know how things should be? Only through our acts can we know ourselves and only through our acts can others know us. Our actions are key. They define us. We must do what we value for otherwise we have betrayed our own nature.
But to know how things should be one must consult others. Shoulds are based on opinions and many times on bad advice. Shoulds are someone exercising power over someone else. This is true whether this person is friend or foe.
Complicity is one bound by association, especially in an act. One must choose their actions well. To be effective in the world one must act alone as well as in concordance with others. Different situations dictate different actions. When one is caring for one’s family then the individual and their family are most important. When these actions are in regards to the state then one must act in unity with others, whether it be through a political party, action committee or even as a form of resistance.
One is bound by society. Society has educated you and your children, kept you safe and done likewise for your children and others. But this obligation depends on a just state. An unjust law is not a law at all Dr. Martin Luther King Junior asserts. Justice denied any member of society is an unjust society and falls short of what we have come to expect in our democratic republic.
All should be honest and just. For to be dishonest is to be unjust and much injustice is wrapped in dishonesty. The laws required of its citizens must be required of all including those corporate personsÂ. While the pleasure of innocence may be impossible, knowing that what one has done is righteous is reward enough. To do otherwise ultimately is cowardice and is a corrupting influence on the coward and others around them. And like the incidence of disease, it must be controlled before it has spread.