“Following orders” is the reason the USA prosecuted thousands of nazis at Nuremberg.
all those nazis were afraid of losing their job too. i do not forgive them. >:(
I’m conflicted on this (as in the topic). I have no argument that the information should have remained public. but like, what is the alternative that the employees had? The only outcome not obeying that direction would be is termination. Being terminated for not following direction would help nobody, the information would still not be available to the public, and the workers would be out of a job. Plus workers terminated would be replaced with workers who were not passionate about climate change, so if a more minor of a problem came up, they couldn’t skew it in a less destructive matter. The workers were dealt a shitty hand and did what they could with it.
Being said, love the idea! I wish we could have more of a say in stuff like this. 😀
i appreciate your confliction and i hope you are right. i hope “good” EPA employees, fired or not, get together and start reposting the removed data on non-gov websites and protesting. which is what they would do if they actually were ever passionate about climate change.
I agree, if they had access to the data it they should continue to discretely leak it to the public even If they don’t protest the action publicly (due to anonymity concerns)
What does “termination” mean in this context?
You can say “kill” here.
Being fired basically. Or being relieved of position
Perhaps they can use a crude, passive aggressive search & replace.
eg: “climate change” to “climate always remaining exactly the same”Edit: nonsense sentence.
