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Why I Don't Care About Egypt

I was having lunch at a nearby park when I saw some dried dog shit. Someone must have left it earlier. As a human, I too often think about moral blame rather than community building. "Well, I didn't leave the dog shit there," I used to rationalize leaving it. "Plus," I buttressed my argument, "I always pick up after my own dog. Karmically, I am under no obligation to pick up this dog shit." Isn't moral blame a cutesy little device? If someone else is to blame, then I don't have to do anything. I get to sit in smug condemnation. The park bench serves as my own private Olympus. Meanwhile, shit festers. My internal diagloue contained sound arguments, and yet they ignored reality: The dog shit is there. The dog shit is going to remain there until someone picks it up, or until it winds up on my or someone else's shoe...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).