Sometimes the most powerful act of resistance is to do nothing

I’ve written a short piece on the ethics of resisting injustice for Aeon. The idea for it came as I was walking through London during the Extinction Rebellion protests. It is a cause that I felt a lot of sympathy, but didn’t join the active protest. The question that this raised was what do I owe these people who are resisting injustice. The answer it turns out was a lot of nothing.