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When someone is actually performing an action that is unjust i can understand the total importance of intervening. But what about when that is something that is spoken instead of an actual action? So for example saying poor people don't matter, or people with disabilities aren't important, or saying things that are racist and sexist.

When do you just stay silent, having understood this person is not going to change their opinion and that their life and how they live it is their own responsibility, and when do you speak? Do we just leave it at "don't argue with fools?" The worry i have is that by not speaking up you appear to be in agreement even though you aren't.

When someone is actually performing an action that is unjust i can understand the total importance of intervening. But what about when that is something that is spoken instead of an actual action? So for example saying poor people don't matter, or people with disabilities aren't important, or saying things that are racist and sexist.

When do you just stay silent, having understood this person is not going to change their opinion and that their life and how they live it is their own responsibility, and when do you speak? Do we just leave it at "don't argue with fools?" The worry i have is that by not speaking up you appear to be in agreement even though you aren't.