The moral weight of choosing not to act
Students wrestle with the hardest question in justice work: what is your responsibility when you witness something wrong? Through a narrative about a bystander moment and an essay on the ethics of neutrality, students examine the spectrum between passive witness and active advocate — and what moves people across it.
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