Well… you’re not wrong, but there does come a point when it is time to stop obeying the dictates of your designated role. Everyone’s here by accident. Anyone standing in an office has the option of doing literally anything, on any given day, depending on how they see their duty to human beings in and out of their organization. At a certain point, I think it is okay to be ahead of the people who are supposed to be your “leaders” in terms of telling you what you are and are not allowed to care about or speak out on. The humans in government above this person would have been perfectly within their abilities to say “You know what, he’s not supposed to say that, but he is right, and fuck anybody who tries to tell us as the official government of New Zealand that he is not.”
Everyone involved in Vichy France was following the rules. So, for that matter, were most of the people involved in the Wehrmacht.
Well… you’re not wrong, but there does come a point when it is time to stop obeying the dictates of your designated role. Everyone’s here by accident. Anyone standing in an office has the option of doing literally anything, on any given day, depending on how they see their duty to human beings in and out of their organization. At a certain point, I think it is okay to be ahead of the people who are supposed to be your “leaders” in terms of telling you what you are and are not allowed to care about or speak out on. The humans in government above this person would have been perfectly within their abilities to say “You know what, he’s not supposed to say that, but he is right, and fuck anybody who tries to tell us as the official government of New Zealand that he is not.”
Everyone involved in Vichy France was following the rules. So, for that matter, were most of the people involved in the Wehrmacht.
As a human being, absolutely, but as a diplomat it isn’t as easy.
You need to expect that your life/carreer will be over if you go off script for too long.
Not everyone can be a Raoul Wallenberg, in the past it seems like it was easier as nations was less interconnected and less dependent.
Being a Raoul Wallenberg also made him lose his job due to speaking his mind, albeit a bit more drastically