Society to my mind is balanced between the desires of the powerful and the needs of the weak. Power accumulates to those who have power, and those who seek power need the support or approval of those in power. The needs of the weak are on occasion championed by individual powerful people (of the philanthropic bent), but are more reliably represented by banding together into secret societies, guilds, unions and in a true sense, democracies.
I have of late become a Trade Union representative for the Transport and General Workers Union at a liberal, fair minded, benevolent employer campaigning for social change. Today my first case saw a man fired and all but escorted from the building (we lack big burly security guards)
I suspect in a big financial firm he would have been paid to resign, in industry the union (in the day) would have been strong enough to defend him, in a nice liberal NGO which doesn’t do this sort of thing, he may well have been shafted.
The case could be argued either way, and to an extent I’m glad the organisation has the guts to purge people but the manner in which it was done lacks compassion. Equally by purging the trouble makers, those who speak up or disagree, then perhaps we simply reinforce a hierarchy of dead wood.
If change is needed within the organisations promoting social change then bring it on, but let us at least do so with a degree of humanity and kindness.
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