Bigg Elephant

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.

At the end of the day everything comes down to  a choice and asking Shakespeare’s  ultimate question. “To be or not to be.”

A review of ethics, codes, laws, philosophy, religion,…it all comes down to that question. Where do you stand.Do you accept the “slings and arrows or outrageous fortune” or do you make a stand “take up arms against a sea of troubles.”

Do you accept what is wrong and acquiesce to a  “they are too powerful” system or do you fight for what is right.  Do you become a victim of bullying, do you submit to the threats of sycophants that protect the serial bully with their weak minded protectionist attitudes, their systematic loyalty, their  isolationist attitude to any threat outside of the norm-it is convenient. It is also weak and cowardly. If you know what is right but you acquiesce to a system, it erodes your own sense of humanity. If you know what is right and wrong and then not act, you are complicit to evil.

Bullying is based on; “the intention to hurt or  do harm to others for the benefit of the bully.”- that is evil by any philosophical definition. Those that are complicit or cover up fall on the side of evil. Likeable people as individuals, but ethically and morally weak, complicit to the actions of a serial bully-they give the bully the power and the strength to continue on,  unquestioned and unchecked. The serial bully has power and knows how to use it. They are drawn to positions of power where can not be challenged or questioned. Behind every bully there is an aura of competence/unconditional power,the threat of consequences, an element of fear. ” I have spies everywhere, you know?”

It all comes down to the question of “To be or not to be.”