{"id":23697,"date":"2011-11-13T23:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T06:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/a-thousand-reasons-no-justifications.html"},"modified":"2011-11-13T23:49:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T06:49:38","slug":"a-thousand-reasons-no-justifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/a-thousand-reasons-no-justifications.html","title":{"rendered":"A thousand reasons, no justifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are a thousand reasons not to do the right thing.  The thing you know is the right thing, the think you know you&#39;ll feel guilty about if you don&#39;t.<\/p>\n<p>A thousand reasons to go along. To pass the buck. To look the other way. To not do what you think is right, or to delay action to ask someone else what they think, or to simply do the safe thing and claim that you figured that those <i>other<\/i> folks would take care of it, so you don&#39;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>But a <i>million<\/i> reasons don&#39;t justify. Or excuse. Or, speaking from my own personal, small experience, help you sleep at night.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#39;s about Penn State. But it&#39;s about a lot more than that. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/2011\/11\/no-more-dismissal-no-more-excuses\/'>No more dismissal, no more excuses \u00ab Decrepit Old Fool<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNo more dismissal, no more excuses. By decrepadmin, on November 13th, 2011. (Trigger alert). This article in Scientific American has been making the rounds, in defense of witnesses who don&#39;t inter&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are a thousand reasons not to do the right thing. The thing you know is the right thing, the think you know you&#39;ll feel guilty about if you don&#39;t. A thousand reasons to go along. To pass the buck. To look the other way. To not do what you think is right, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/a-thousand-reasons-no-justifications.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A thousand reasons, no justifications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,67,71,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-sports","category-religion-me","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23697,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23697,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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