Jul 31, 2011

Does a collective conscience exist with Fiji Junta supporters?

THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (1902-2003)

1 comment:

Tim said...

Come now! Does a "collective conscience exist"?. It did as per some ideological, arrogant, and maybe even well-intentioned motivation - EXCEPT that ego, personality, arrogance, self-preservation, holier-than-thou attitude, a realisation of exactly what they have done and a desire to stave off the inevitable has kicked in. Remeber back nearly a century ago, some of these people would eventually be left hanging from lampost cross-bars. We're all so much more civilised now though (AREN'T WE?).
I'm sorry but I'll not shed a tear if that's how they end up though I may shed one for their whanau. (Just one).
These arrogant sods after all have hijacked an ENTIRE nation because they were SO "paternalistic", so arrogant, so self-obsessed and self-interested that THEY thought they were somehow better than others, and that they knew best.
The statistics actually prove otherwise.
In terms of history - their position is only temporary - something they haven't come to terms with. They're SO arrogant, they haven't actually considered what they're leaving behind, OR the shit they're leaving their mokopuna. SHAME