Topics Justice

Question If I discover someone is doing something unjust and ignore it, is it wrong for me to ignore it as 'not my business'?

Accepted:
June 16, 2011

Comments

good question, but i'm sure it's underdescribed -- there probably are cases of 'yes', cases of 'no', and cases of 'undetermined.' Depends precisely what you mean by justice etc. -- and the complex relationship between (say) justice and the law ... No doubt we have moral obligations to intervene when someone is doing something widely judged to be very unjust -- but when the action is less unjust, or when intervening itself might involve breaking a law or other moral obligation, then those latter constraints might outweigh the original injustice ... The thing to do, I think, is try to generate a number of different examples, and then restate the question in the context of specific examples!

best, Andrew

Question If I discover someone is doing something unjust and ignore it, is it wrong for me to ignore it as 'not my business'? Accepted:June 16, 2011

Question If I discover someone is doing something unjust and ignore it, is it wrong for me to ignore it as 'not my business'?

Accepted:
June 16, 2011