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When colleagues struggle together over workplace ethics

My closest work colleague and I have been having the same conversation for months about whether to speak up about some problematic stuff happening in our organization, and we keep talking ourselves in and out of action while watching things get worse. We're stuck between our conscience and our careers and using each other to rationalize inaction.

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Two people are enabling each other's moral paralysis by endlessly discussing rather than confronting a situation they both know requires action.

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