Such scenes usually portray the protagonist standing up in silent opposition. The moral force of the stand is persuasive, and one by one we see others stand up as well. No is a small word, very hard to say, but is the only antidote to the poison of betrayal by collaboration. Today we are watching the spectacle of our President and Congress, and many other influential figures in society, cooperating to betray our freedom of speech on the Internet . De Chardin believed that we only find evolutionary salvation together.
None are free until all are free.
Tricking the system . Our self-justification, that someone else made a mistake which gave us our opportunity, and therefore deserves the consequences, is meaningless. Because we chose not to do so, we must take responsibility. I believe we must each take a daily balance of our actions to determine whether we can live with them. Each choice we make must be examined in a vacuum.