On Accountability

If you pay a tax to a government, and that government uses the money to pursue something that is utterly iniquitous, are you still accountable? I say you are, if you were aware of their policy when you fuelled their coffers. If you elect a politician and that politician pursues iniquitous acts, are you co-responsible? I say you will be insofar as you were aware that such wrongdoings were part of the politician’s agenda. If you follow orders from a superior and those orders are iniquitous, will you be absolved of the wrongdoing? No. A man may rightfully command another, but each man is accountable for his own acts.