On Complicity and Compromise

''Taxpayers are complicit in the illegal wars waged by their governments.'' ''Corporations are complicit in human rights abuses perpetrated by their suppliers.'' ''Aid workers who compromise with militias are complicit in their reign of terror.'' We hear such allegations all the time. Yet there are many ways of being mixed up with the wrongdoing of others. They are not all on a par, morally; some ...