Pet Evil Complacency As Conspiracy: Essay

By permitting the evil act to take place, and making it easier for evil to continue to be conducted in the future, an individual is making it easier for evil to be practiced against themselves. This makes cooperation wit evil and evil of its own no matter what one's sense of responsibility says, as it violates the basic and fundamental responsibility to protect oneself.

Even when a witness to the mistreatment of a pet feels its wrong, they might not think it is their place to interfere. This is different from shirking responsibility; this implies a right on the part of the evil-doer to commit evil. The very concept of a right to do evil negates the concept of rights in the first pace, however. If it is an individual's right to commit evil, then why do we have a society or government at all? The point of these institutions is to hold each other accountable for not permitting evil to be done, and if the individuals in the society are no longer willing to do so, the entire society has become corrupted and evil.

The man raising his fist to the dog is certainly more t fault for that specific instance of evil than the woman pushing her stroller on the other side of the street who doesn't say anything, or doesn't go to a neighbor's to call the police and/or animal welfare.But that woman bears equal responsibility for every future act f evil committed by that man towards that dog. By ignoring his act, she becomes responsible for putting herself and her child at risk of future evil, and for making a more evil and unjust society. Cooperation is often as simple as standing by; as Edmund Burke said, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.".....