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A 4 page paper assessing the veracity of a statement made by Confucius, “To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.” The paper agrees with the statement on both national and individual levels. It uses as examples the quote by Martin Niemöller (“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing…”) and the experience of the author of the paper in reluctantly taking part in a substance abuse intervention of an old friend. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a homily focusing on the progress of events in Hitlers Germany in the 1930s, one that decries the inaction of non-Jews as Hitlers henchmen continued to remove "undesirable" elements from
the larger population. Written in the first person, it lists the Gestapos progress through German society: First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so
I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not
a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one
left to stand up for me (Pastor Niem?ller). Long before Hitler came to power and instituted the policies that would lead to the
Holocaust, Confucius wrote, "To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice." The purpose here is to assess that statement in light of agreeing
with it. Assumptions Pastor Niem?llers homily may or may not be valid in historical fact, but its usefulness in illustrating inaction as cowardice
does not rely on whether it is historically or chronologically accurate. Confucius statement cannot apply to all instances of knowing what is right but choosing not to act.
As example, the 12-year-old middle school boy knows that the right thing to do with his dirty dishes is to lightly clean them and place them in the dishwasher but
may well choose to stuff his half-empty cereal bowl behind the couch instead. He has the time between the choice and his parents search for the source of the
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