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It's removal of responsibility and we are all guilty of it.
If we set up a whole bunch of complicated bureaucracy, rules and regulations and institutions and organizations to deliver a program and tell someone to do something at some time, some place for some reason .... we're separated from the final action by dozens or even hundreds of people. We don't care because it's being done by other people somewhere else and none of it is happening in front of us. The people setting up the rules remove their responsibility by saying that they just gave orders and others are free to disagree with them - those doing the actions remove their responsibilities because they'll argue that they were ordered to do it and it was all just part of their job. (Look up the legal arguments of Nazis and German veterans being prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials after WWII).
If someone were sitting in front of you and you had a sandwich in your hand and the man in front of you said they were hungry and asked for your sandwich ..... for the majority of people everywhere, no matter, race, religion, creed, background ... they would give them the sandwich without much thought.
When we are closer to the event, we are more apt to act humanely towards our fellow man. Once we remove ourselves from each other, we will do the most terrible things to one another.
This is well stated, and I really think it's one of the core problems with every form of government. How do you scale the social support system without turning it into a machine?