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ethics, culture and integrity-lessons from history

By December 1916 more than 17,000 British troops were diagnosed with nervous or mental disability, what we call shell shock or PTSD nowadays, despite which the British military authorities continued to charge and convict sufferers with cowardice and desertion, and then shoot them by firing squad to make an example.
On August 16 2006, the British Government performed a remarkable U-turn in policy when it pardoned 308 British soldiers who were shot by firing squad for cowardice or desertion during the First World War.
This change of policy and decision was largely due to years of persistent lobbying, campaigning and determined media coverage, by organisations and family members alike.

This story carries two lessons;
1. Anyone in authority has a responsibility to act with integrity, and
2. Where people in authority fail to act with integrity, the persistence and determination of ordinary people will eventually force a change.

Where you are required to make decisions about the wellbeing, control or otherwise of other humans, ask yourself one question….
will history look at my decisions and agree they were right at the time?

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