Brave words but those make you a non-average citizen. For every one like you - who is willing to stand up - there are another 1000 who will tell you to have apathy and frown upon your actions.
Most definitely. The refrain I was railing against was a reply of, "Nothing" to the question, "What CAN an average citizen do?".
The answer is not "nothing". The answer is "Anything _except_ nothing". What they WILL do is a matter for the historians to debate after the dust clears.
There are many reasons to bow down to those that would do yourself or others harm. I live a comfortable life. I'm not in the streets throwing Molotov cocktails (hello NSA), but to say it is because there is nothing that CAN be done is a fantasy. It would help me feel better about seeing evil in the world, recognizing it, and then giving it a pass out of laziness or because it directly benefits me. It's an attitude that makes us part of the problem. It's not an excuse that pardons me from the fight.
Anything you CAN do has no real effect on the matter and is just tiny noise - therefore you will have to learn to deal with it untill everyone who CAN do something WILL do it. Then the noise will overthrow the signal.
