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Enemy of the People: ACT Term Paper
Yet I suggest you consider that it is also not always blind. You should consider not only the benefits of your obfuscation, but also the costs. Certainly today you will keep your business afloat... But what will you do in the summer when typhoid starts killing your visitors? No-one was happier about these baths than Thomas... yet he noticed the pattern. Do you think no one else will notice? The situation is only made worse by the fact that he has not fled. What will you do when visitors stricken by plague are told by the most available local doctor -- that would be our brother, you know, now that no one in town will go to him -- that these plagues are the results of your water? You should balance the costs of lawsuits... And innumerable deaths on your conscience... against the cost of repairs.
PETER: What of the cost of publicity?
JAMES: It is a competitive market, indeed -- but who is to say that having the highest standards cannot be competitive. Let the neighbors steal your business, until you can advertise that you have the only baths proven by years of hard labor to be absolutely disease free... while your competitors may still be diseased.
PETER: It is a fool's dream.
JAMES: Is it... Our brother says you have a more personal stake in the matter.
PETER: What would that be?
JAMES: A political career.
PETER: You insult me.
JAMES: Is it not true that your job would be at risk if you admitted your error in placing the viaducts so near the bath? Can you afford to risk your reelection by costing the town this much money and hardship?
PETER: I would not be so callous.
JAMES: You are comfortable, are you willing to become uncomfortable?
PETER: Are you suggesting that my special interest in this bath is dictating my performance as mayor? Would you really accuse me of sacrifice lives for my job.
JAMES: I am not saying anything... I am asking... Our brother says you ordered him silenced to protect your power as ruler of the town. Your election was coming up
PETER: I have that power through majority rule. Now who is mocking the majority? Are you actually saying they would be so blind as to just vote for me when I was lying to them?
JAMES: Can you show me a better example of how the world works? What I see here is that you are willing to sacrifice sound business and ethical practices to make your own election happen.
PETER: That is not the way of things.
JAMES: Then what is?
PETER: The majority did not want to suffer through this. The majority did not want to lose their houses and their businesses over some scientist's proclamations. None of us have died from it. The political system is working when the majority can silence one fool who thinks he knows what the world is all about. The political system is working when there is an equilibrium. This is an equilibrium, of sorts -- it is in our best interests --in the interest of our society -- that we survive this thing. Society knows what is best for it. If Thomas had concerned himself at all with the welfare of the town, instead of just worrying about his own praise, he would not even have considered destroying our livelihood.
JAMES: He did not see it that way.
PETER: Nonetheless, that is the…
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