My team at work is being asked to implement a policy that we all privately think is harmful to our users, but no one wants to be the dissenter who pushes back to management. We keep hoping someone else will speak up and we're all complicit in something that feels wrong while telling ourselves we don't have a choice.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared moral unease is being suppressed by individual risk aversion, creating collective complicity in actions the group believes are harmful.
“Where Are You with The examined moral life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.