Indifference

When your Government inflicts inhumane sickening, sadistic acts of barbarity and you don't hear about it on the evening news upon your return home from the career ladder, does that make you any less complicit?

Especially since it is the job of the Government to protect you from knowing about it. They even provide you with a standby excuse to rationalize and justify it to save you the pain of guilt, should you learn of the depravity afterwards. 

Of course, by that time you'll already be programmed to accept it as an unfortunate modern symptom of `normal' society.

 

By the time the incremental human carnage reaches you, there will be no more excuses left, since by such times, you will have been fully indoctrinated to self destruct by remote control. Even if you do somehow maintain your freedom, you have forfeited your right to it, since by default, you sanctioned your own enslavement through your apathy, which years previously had sacrificed the will of the human spirit.

When an angel stands at the top of a tall building, he observes the man beside him, as he contemplates suicide. The man wishes to escape death upon surveying the dead before him. The angel is there to remind him that the only thing he can take with him is his selfless love and compassion for others. The career ladder took him to the top of the building, whereupon he learned that his earthly wealth and material possessions are worthless.