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Often crimes, immoral acts, and unethical acts, are
defined in terms of what an individual is forbidden to do:
murder, robbery, assault, rape, deception, etc. Such
crimes are a threat to personal and communal integrity,
and usually entail disintegrative behavior by an
individual.
What of behaviors which entail two or more people
engaged in mutually agreeable behaviors? When is such
behavior criminal, immoral, unethical? If two or more
people cooperate in murder, robbery, assault, rape,
deception or illegal business practices---clearly their
behavior is criminal, immoral and/or unethical. When two
or more individuals cooperate together as one --- what is
criminal, immoral, and/or unethical for one to do? It is
natural to regard their collective behavior as criminal,
immoral and/or unethical.
In law there are instances where it is criminal for
two or more people to cooperate in doing what is perfectly
legal for one person to do; e.g., set prices in "price
fixing" which undermines healthy competition. Collectively
cooperating in being deceptive may also be treated far
more severely that individual behavior which is deceptive,
but hard to show to be intentionally deceptive.
In addition to the above kinds of situations, there
are situations in which people are embarrassed by, and/or
object to, cooperative behavior on the part of two or more
equally powerful people. What if no person has been
harmed, deceived or truly threatened? What if the
behavior has been truly private and is only suspected by
others? What if no one that is involved in the behavior
has objected to being involved in the behavior? What
right do "outsiders" or "bystanders" have to object?
Sometimes people object because:
1. They are emotionally immature and are embarrassed
by what they suspect others have done or are
doing.
2. Their own collusive, addictive, and/or
codependent behavior is exposed by what others
have done, said, or are doing or saying.
3. They have been trying to own/control others'
behavior, and others have broken free of
illegitimate attempts to be in control
of them.
4. What people do/say threatens a dominant paradigm
which is incomplete, but pretends to be
comprehensive.
Some of the more "difficult-to-assess" situations
entail "private" relationships between/among people who
differ significantly in power and influence --- due to
differences in age, maturity, intelligence, education,
race, sexuality, religion, nationality, tribe, family
reputation, etc. The less powerful participants may not
recognize that they are being taken advantage of ---and/or
may not have any effective means to protest being taken
advantage of. The more powerful participants may not
recognize that they are more powerful, dominating, or
taking advantage of another person or persons. It is
difficult in such situations to draw clear boundaries
through the use of systematic procedures or formulas. It
takes more than technical procedures to deal helpfully
with such situations.
Often, dominant people try to enforce laws that they
want to exist---but actually do not exist. They do not
function in terms of legislation, which has been passed by
duly constituted legislatures --- and in terms of judicial
courts, have been duly constituted. They often pretend
that the consensus which they and their "like-minded"
friends have generated is adequate grounds for being
coercive towards those other people who do not agree with
them in expression and behavior. Thus they rarely quote
any section of any published law. They take for granted
that people assume that what they say is illegal, immoral
or unethical --- is covered under written legislation.
They do not work to promote personal and communal
integrity through honest procedures.
See the next essay.
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