concernedhner

At some level, I am horrified at what was done with prior knowledge by this institution. At another, this incident makes me wonder how this ties into the diffused nature of responsibility within corporations. Was the diffusion of responsibility within these corporations was so great that they could perpetuate these acts without any one individual bearing the moral responsibility of what happened? If so, then these corporations inadvertently have created an entity that is independent of the individual stakeholders and their moral pangs. That is a very frightening prospect...

He was an ardent atheist who underwent a deathbed conversion. The person who administered the last sacraments to him - Father Anselm Strittmatter - said that he was so terrified of dying that he did his best to distract himself from that prospect. Even spending time reciting Goethe's Faust to his brother.

He was a brilliant man and he was understandably terrified of the very mortal fate that awaits all of us.