We all sympathise with the victims of the infected blood and Post Office scandals. But what about the culprits? How many of us can honestly say that, trying to build careers in a large organisation, we would have acted differently?
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Is this a rhetorical question? Anyway, it is quite beside the point!
Richard W
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I worked with software and hardware from the mid 1980s and therefore am well aware that both would often not work properly. I also worked with staff and managers who had no idea how both hardware and software worked and treated computers like some sort of magical entities with their own minds. Not understanding meant that they were easily fooled into believing that computers could or couldn’t do certain things and I can see why the likes of Vennells were easily fooled by Fujitsu and other equally ignorant subordinates.
We have to accept that as humans we are easily fooled into believing things that aren’t true. So, as Vish says, we can all end up as culprits because we are fooled into believing things that we shouldn’t and supporting them.
Ironically for Vish, it’s the believers in magic and superstition who get the chance on TFTD to remind us that we should be careful about trusting our beliefs. Having a more scientific and skeptical mindset should be taught more widely and religions don’t do that.
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We all make mistakes, partly because, as Paul says, our brains are easily fooled. We don’t really need a convoluted ancient myth to remind us of this. To help get round our fallibility we have invented all sorts of workarounds, from the scientific method to the rule of law. When things break down, it is usually beside the point to look for failure to act morally, whatever that may even mean.
Nobody is really interested in Paula Vennell’s moral compass, except insofar as her actions stand in stark contrast to her professed Christian beliefs. The point at issue is whether she was over-trusting, incompetent and negligent, or whether she actively connived in the lies the Post Office was telling. We may yet find out.
(As an aside, imagine the furore if Welby had succeeded in making Vennell Bishop of London, and then all this stuff about her time at the PO had come out! Both he and the Church would have been even more badly discredited than they are at the moment. They may yet cop some of the fallout).
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“Nobody is really interested in Paula Vennell’s moral compass, except insofar as her actions stand in stark contrast to her professed Christian beliefs.”
Hang on, weren’t we told yesterday that atheists were to blame?
Stonyground.
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which must be true, because as we all know, a church of England vicar would never lie.
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