The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil

[Sal]

@Sal well I'm glad we could agree on something today .but even those institutions can be put in  a place where the institutions survival is more important than the values and ideals. Case in point that thin blue line...

I guess the question would be how to deconstruct the survivability aspect of an institution while keeping it alive for it's purpose, values and ideals?

Temba, his arms open.

I agree with theists, especially Christians, in a way that not any of them are able to sense or know ...  Anyways, the institutions are only as robusts as the enforcement they possess from human capital and cooperation, this is beyond some maladaptive notion about buildings, roads, architecture, even human-made governing laws. We have let our notions of "values and ideals" to circumvent internal threats to those concepts. The over-used example of "being intolerant of intolerance" is just an observation to that effect.

Yes, I think you are correct. An institution is only as good as to the servicing towards its function, it's purpose for existing. To ensure that, it needs to have measures, aligned to its own function, to correct any malfunction of the institution itself - in essence, fixing itself - to make it more robust.