When falsity is present, the easiest thing to do is to be silent and let falsity perpetuate. When a wrong is present, the easiest thing to do is nothing. When evil is present, the easiest thing to do is nothing and let the evil perpetuate. What does this produce? More of what we are not dealing with. The avoidance of this dis-ease is a "disease" (in a way) that inhibits us and has us not deal with falsity, wrongs and evil, letting it be.
We overcome the dis-ease when there is discomfort from being personally affected by falsity, wrong or evil. If it doesn't affect us much, then it's not as motivating to get us to do something about it.
It may be easy to let it go in the short-term, but not-so easy to have it around in the long-term as it grows to eventually affect us.
There is a cost-benefit ratio we calculate in getting involved in stopping or changing things that shouldn't be. The initial cost is to put in the time, energy and effort required to create a change to a condition. It's easier to not do that work.
But if something is personally affecting us in a negative way, it has a negative cost. This often motivates us to overcome the dis-ease and cost of doing something about it. The personal cost is of greater significance and salience in our personal lives to motivate us to care to do something.
This is a problem in dealing with issues in the world. For most of us, as long as we are in a geographical zone of comfort, ease and convenience, we don't care that much about what is happening outside of our little bubbles of reality. Unity among larger groups is diminished because we aren't invested in what happens outside of our geographical realities.
We don't want to get involved in the affairs of others. We don't want the hassle. We don't want to be hassled. We just want to live a nice, cushy, comfortable life of ease and convenience.
This type of thinking and living is a slippery slope. I'm reminded of the "First they came..." poem by Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
This was about the cowardice of German intellectuals to stand by and let the Nazi powers purge certain groups. All was fine as long as it wasn't them being targeted.
This is about thinking that as long as we're not personally affected in our little bubble of reality, then it's ok for bad things to happen to others and we don't need to get involved. But that isn't the optimal way for people to reciprocally cooperate for optimized survival.
This ideology ignores how we are all in this together, that we are like others, and all connected in a way. If we aren't willing to do something when others are being affected personally, why do we expect others to do something when we are personally affected?
If we all stick to only doing something when our personal lives are affected, then we all stand alone, watching idly as things happen to others. Unity comes when we stand together on principles, like morality which is the path and way to true unity. If we want things to stay morally good for us, we should be concerned to keep things morally good for others as well. That way things can get morally better for all of us, together.
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