4 essays where Simone Weil sits on the council. Simone weighs in on mercy, accountability, responsibility. Read what Simone would tell you.
Three thinkers on the line between mercy and enabling. Weil says attention is the only real generosity. Douglass says power concedes nothing without demand. Carnegie asks what winning this costs you.
Three thinkers on inherited benefit and moral obligation. Weil says attention is the beginning. Le Guin says freedom arrives welded to responsibility. Nietzsche asks who benefits from your guilt.
Three thinkers on helping those who resist. Rogers says accept the person, not the behavior. Havel says enabling is dishonesty. Weil says attention sees what is actually needed.
Three thinkers on when to speak out. Orwell says name what you see. Douglass says silence has always served the powerful. Weil says look first, then speak.
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