Whistle-blowers - How much we can learn from them depends on how much we can give up

Based on intensive interviews with several dozen whistle-blowers, this article ask what they have to reach about rile organizations in which they worked. The most important thing they have to reach is that organizations are deeply threatened by what Kant called ethical autonomy (Mundigkeit). Organizational life is dedicated to the destruction of ethical autonomy for much the saw reason that Freud saw social life as dedicated to the suppression of sex and aggression. Ethical autonomy threatens to explode the organization. This may not in fact be the case, bur most organizations act as if they believe it. The purpose of sacrificing the whistle-blower is to prevent the outbreak of an epidemic of ethical and moral responsibility that threatens to engulf the organization in a competitive world.