Kind of sad now that you mention it. The current situation is a direct result of a long line of people who were afraid to say “no.”
Sure they may have lost their jobs, lost their own next elections, or whatever. But plenty of people had the opportunity to say “no, this guy’s a dumbass, he didn’t pass this class” or “no, this guy is being used by the Russian government, we should tell the public” or “no, this guy tried to blackmail Ukraine he shouldn’t be president” or “no this guy tried to overthrow the government” or “no this guy raped a girl” or… well you get the point.
The list goes on and on forever. Often in those cases a single person in power could have stopped this crazy train but chose to pass the buck.
Kind of sad now that you mention it. The current situation is a direct result of a long line of people who were afraid to say “no.”
Sure they may have lost their jobs, lost their own next elections, or whatever. But plenty of people had the opportunity to say “no, this guy’s a dumbass, he didn’t pass this class” or “no, this guy is being used by the Russian government, we should tell the public” or “no, this guy tried to blackmail Ukraine he shouldn’t be president” or “no this guy tried to overthrow the government” or “no this guy raped a girl” or… well you get the point.
The list goes on and on forever. Often in those cases a single person in power could have stopped this crazy train but chose to pass the buck.
This is the reasoning behind “the broken window policing”: if you do a small crime and get caught, you are less likely to do a bigger crime.