No, the perpetrators have free will, they’re not levers or natural effects…
Regardless, I think the more important question is (if this is done for social justice and prosociality) what matters more, righteousness or an easy life? Virtue or life itself? Every great person agrees it’s the former over the latter, especially when you consider that everyone lives and dies but not everyone’s decent, one is free and God-given while the other one is achieved through sacrifice. Having said that, personally, I don’t think I would do it if it meant my family would be endangered. Not because I don’t agree with these great men but simply because I’m not brave nor selfless (not pious? 😞) enough to sacrifice myself and my loved ones for the sake of building a better world. I don’t even think the people of the world deserve it (I might be wrong for thinking this way and definitely wrong for feeling it, may God forgive me but I’m just a man), all they had to do was think just a little bit and do the right thing but they won’t even do that, they get distracted with petty things so I’m just gonna move me and my loved ones somewhere safe and I’ll let them be sacrificed by their leaders like the confused cattle they decided they’d be. This is why Moses and Jesus, for instance, were such great men: they KNEW they were shepherds, wranglers of mindless, ungrateful beasts, and they still put their lives on the line for it and paid the consequences at every turn.
No, the perpetrators have free will, they’re not levers or natural effects…
Regardless, I think the more important question is (if this is done for social justice and prosociality) what matters more, righteousness or an easy life? Virtue or life itself? Every great person agrees it’s the former over the latter, especially when you consider that everyone lives and dies but not everyone’s decent, one is free and God-given while the other one is achieved through sacrifice. Having said that, personally, I don’t think I would do it if it meant my family would be endangered. Not because I don’t agree with these great men but simply because I’m not brave nor selfless (not pious? 😞) enough to sacrifice myself and my loved ones for the sake of building a better world. I don’t even think the people of the world deserve it (I might be wrong for thinking this way and definitely wrong for feeling it, may God forgive me but I’m just a man), all they had to do was think just a little bit and do the right thing but they won’t even do that, they get distracted with petty things so I’m just gonna move me and my loved ones somewhere safe and I’ll let them be sacrificed by their leaders like the confused cattle they decided they’d be. This is why Moses and Jesus, for instance, were such great men: they KNEW they were shepherds, wranglers of mindless, ungrateful beasts, and they still put their lives on the line for it and paid the consequences at every turn.