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...national debate over the court-martial and conviction of Lieut. William Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when they are conscientiously doing what is expected of them...
...sure, is not the same as the dilemma that confronts men at every level in bureaucracies public and private. "The ultimate evil is the result of carefully segmented acts; the structure itself guarantees an evasion by everyone of responsibility for the full moral act," Reich argued. His solution is to create a new sense of accountability within bureaucracies that would "restore the awareness, the responsibility and the law that are the moral essence of free men." Reich surely has a point about the diffusion of responsibility in big, modern organizations. But in the case of Viet Nam, where...
...appeared on at least 15 different stamps in dozens of denominations, commissioned a special issue for his 54th birthday in 1943. The Austrian State Printing Office, a Nazi enterprise at that time, printed the stamps in Vienna. No one knows how many went into circulation. But when the Third Reich fell two years later, some 20 million remained, and they have been gathering dust ever since in the basement of the State Printing Office...
...Greening of America, Reich...
...Edward C. Banfield, a professor of government at Harvard, described "the lower class" as not necessarily poor, not necessarily black, but clearly distinguishable from the working class because of its "inability (or, at any rate, failure) to take account of the future and to control impulses." Shortly after Charles Reich provided Op-Ed with a capsule summary of his forthcoming The Greening of America, Philosopher Marcuse complained in print, somewhat surprisingly, that Reich's euphoric dream treatise "transfigures social and political radicalism into moral rearmament...