The Dangers Of Willful Blindness Analysis

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” In the video “The Dangers of Willful Blindness” by Margaret Heffernan she starts to talk about whistleblowers and she said, “They're hugely dedicated to the institutions that they work for, and the reason that they speak up, the reason they insist on seeing, is because they care so much about the institution and want to keep it healthy.” This quote relates to Joe's Nocera’s article “The Man Who Blew the Whistle”, because Bill Lloyd, the whistleblower, told S.E.C that the company he worked for, which was MassMutual Financial Group, was ripping off customers. Even though he liked working for this company, he had to blow the …show more content…
Bill Lloyd matched the description that Margaret Heffernan gave whistleblowers. The action of making the right choice from the “The Man Who Blew the Whistle” news story shows how people are whistleblowers when they speak out for what they think is right. A realistic solution would be having more protection for whistleblowers since it will encourage more people to speak out. The reason people are afraid to speak out is because they are scared of losing their job or looking like a whistleblower to future employers and possibly not being able to find a job. In the article from The New York Times by Joe Nocera titled “The Man Who Blew the Whistle”, it tells a story about a man named Bill Lloyd who blew the whistle to save countless of customers from being scammed by MassMutual Financial group. The S.E.C or Securities and Exchange Commission announced to the public that they were offering $400,000 to expose an unnamed company for financial fraud. Bill Lloyd had spent 22 years working as an agent for the company and he liked working for