Ethics and Society

If we think of what we do as something we have a responsibility for; it must mean that we can either somehow alter what we do, or choose not to do it. But if we have no choice in what we do, then we lack any responsibility for what it is we've done. All too often, however, society gives us no choice in what we do and it wants us to take full responsibility for our choice-less action. The choice-less action has a false ethical content inculcated by the society: Society wishes for us to perform an action; we perform the action; society judges performance. Society employs subtle enslaving of its members whenever calling acceptance of conscription conditioning: patriotism.