The perfect world doesnt exist and while it isn't perfect we generally have a responsibility to get better and continuing to improve. We do that because we owe it to society and we owe it to the next generation. However, that is not always the goal for everyone and things like human rights, civil rights, freedom of speech and freedom of religion or even the concept of justice can be warped when sifted through the hands of self interest, corruption and extremism. Now that the hypothetical example entity is aware of their behaviors/consciousness they have to make choices as to what they will stand for in the future and how to deal with the failures of the past. No choice is only one option that buys a little time but leads to greater natural mechanics in the future as each new complaint and issue is sifted through the awareness of prior wrong doings. One cannot escape awareness and additional data against such backdrop of moral and legal failiures. Failure has long lasting impacts such as lost credibility to institutional stakeholders and even worse lost credibility to each.
We have been discussing a hypothetical example for learning purposes. In this example someone wanted something and utilized a local goold old boy network known as "The Clan" to spread horrendous bigoted rumors. So confident in their behaviors they tried to set someone up and told them that the reasons why they, their friends, and corrupted officials were targeting them is because they were a religious minority. The victims were followed home, threatened, put on hit lists, caught textremists, blocked from local employment, discarded in justice, so on and so forth. Whistleblowing led to increased street retaliation and multiple incidents of attemped violence. Others came forward with similar complaints and were also retaliated against until a significant number of people demanded accountability boldly, publically and on recording as a protest to dilitation of their society. The compalints could no longer be ignored! Democracy and the will of the people began to win over corruption and extermism despite the multiple attempts pervert justice and good governance. In this example, we still don't know the end results so don't be too quick to judge. The scribes are still writing the story....turn the page...
What makes this example so horrendous is not the overwhelming evidence, not the wholesale violation of civil rights, but that it went on for a long time beause there were no internal mechanisms within the local system to stop it. Also the perpetrators who launched the rumors had a history of manipulating the sick and dying for financial gain (as well as their social networks to include or ostracize people) and they have utilized a similar process in the past (i.e a pattern of dark triad traits). At the end of the day it was the victims who are wholely responsible for the corrupted officials behaviors. There is often often much more desire to do whatever it takes to reward what is perceived as first class citizens than what is seen as second class citizens mo matter how many social contracts are violated. Those who austrocized feel vindicated in their mean spiritedness and blind followership but in the end they are no differeent than any other hate group (Hate Groups).
Despite the waves of hate (4 waves thus far) people stood with their community and the essential purpose of liberty. With fortitude standing on their tippie toes with bruised arms erect they pushed the liberty torch upward as high as possible to illuminate skyline and horizon in spite of the buckets of water heaped on them to humiliate and smother the illumination of patriotism. The beacon catching the eye of other Eagles flying high to protect our democracy. You could feel the powerful wings flapping in the night air and hear their screeches echoing across the bay and over the treeline.....
Because we have not written the end of the story yet let us consider two possible broad endings. We can include those things in the middleof the spectrum as well.
Illuminated: The eagles swoop in and once the dust cleared and the morning sun broke from the vollies of lies/truth, legal technicalities/spirit of law, divisibility/indivisibility, hate/love, etc. one could see a single feather sticking erect pointed to the heavens as a banner warning to all those who sold out their oaths and as a path marker for the next generation that will need to carry the torch of liberty through twists and turns.
Unilluminated: The eagles swoop in and once the dust cleared from the vollies of lies/truth, legal technicalities/spirit of law, divisibility/indivisibility, hate/love, etc.it became clear each of the eagles were defeated due to self interest, partisanship, foreign influence, and all the other follies of man (Same weaknesses every major philosopher discussed throughout history). The next generation left in the dark, without a path marker and lost for the sun didn't rise again from the east for a long long time.
As a side note....
Those that stand for our rights and the good officials who believe in our freedoms are worth their weight in gold (the ones we lined our streets with) as people pursue liberty and justice for all. We need more of them and should recruit them into our ranks to further institutional strength. It is in honor of the profession and the good men and women who stand nobly every day of their jobs.
In this example the case for Federal oversight gets increasingly stronger the more the local systems cannot correct the wrong. We all share in our futures and that future depends on what we do each and everday as habit.While you can cheat here and there you cannot do that in the long run as the outcome and the experience reality become increasingly- separate. Strengthening Trust
Current Model and Future Model
Currently we have a system that seeks to maintain the spirit of the law and most raise themselves to lofty standards. Concerns over bad actors warping the concept of justice are common but not consistent meaning there is room for improvement. Administrators earnestly try and fight battles for justice but could be improved in terms of quality of catching bad actors and removing bias within the system. Statistically there is room for improvement and one cannot say they are not aware least the be negligent of their roles and missions. People are more concerned over politics than purity of purpose.
A future universal system would encourage the diversification of the institution and updating its effectiveness and reach in communities. It becomings increasingly transparent with higher level stats and problem areas are better discovered with the use of big data, strengthened internal mechanisms, and perceived public outcomes. We are taking what we have now and updating into the Digital Era with a better understanding of its mission to social and economic health of society. We can hedge the power of our human capital and technology to solve many problems in our society if we beging to think of ourselves as an indivisible people with a purpose.
So far in this thought experiment the victims were rewarded, poor behaviors were reinforced among clan members and corrupted officials feeling immune for any subversive (fyi. in this clan are descent people but have a cultic sort of rigid social system with pecking order left over from highschool.). Audits of justice based on racial, religious, "non-local" etc. might find gross disparities (Maybe not but the chances are pretty high it could highlight the corrupted network from another couple of angles and that would lead to triangulation). It may also uncover further criminal activity ranging from extremist level bigotries to things like falsifying testimony to social pressure to not "turn in one of our own". Others have indicated that the rumors can impact employment, social life, and even justice.
Let us consider a number of questions in this hypotehtical example for learning purposes.
1.) Is it moral and fare to allow such a system to continue forward without correction?
2.) Should we have second class citizens with few to no rights and should we be encouraging that?
3.) How does bad actors reinforce corruption by rewarding "in-group" clan members at the expense of victims?
4.) How do we vote out officials throughout the decision making chain that supported corruption and disparity?
5.) What is the concept of espoused vs. enacted organizational values and how might that impact perception, performance, or outcomes?
6.) How does either free passes or accountability define our soul?
There is no right and wrong answer. There are only answers that support and don't support our mission as a people.
*This is a thought experiment on freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the Constitution, and human/civil rights. It is a hypothetical example for learning purpsoses only. Take with a grain of salt.
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