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Simone Weil

4 essays where Simone Weil sits on the council. Simone weighs in on mercy, accountability, responsibility. Read what Simone would tell you.

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Ethics

When Does Mercy Become Enabling?

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.

Simone WeilFrederick DouglassDale Carnegiemercyaccountability

Ethics

What Do You Do When You've Benefited From an Injustice You Didn't Create?

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.

Simone WeilUrsula K. Le GuinFriedrich Nietzscheresponsibilityprivilege

Ethics

When Is It Right to Help Someone Who Won't Help Themselves?

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.

Carl RogersVaclav HavelSimone Weilcarecompassion

Ethics

When Is Silence Complicity?

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.

George OrwellFrederick DouglassSimone WeilHonestyCourageIntegrity

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