“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”
This "line" comes from the movie Spotlight, that depicts the incredible Boston Globe investigation of predatory priest's sexual abuse of children and cover up by bishops as delivered by Stanley Tucci in the role of crusading Boston lawyer Mitchell Garabedian
,It might take a few minutes for the meaning and power of this observation to sink in. Let's keep it simple. Doesn't it allude to the disturbing number of people that participate in turning their heads away from and/or covering up indications and manifestations of child sexual abuse (physical abuse, and/or emotional abuse). And it's so much easier to deny or cove-up the rape and abuse of children than it is ignore victimized adults who have an ability to call for justice and arrange for necessary medical-emotional treatment.
Perhaps the best way to measure the health and virtue of a country or entire culture is not just to look at our prisons as Nietzsche suggested but to examine how well or poorly we do protecting our children from various forms of abuse and coming to the assistance of those who have been abused.
Reminds me of another line-the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. And how do we justify that ?
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