PGC2020
Greg Sadler: Complex Causality in Crises and Solidarity with the Vulnerable
Crises involve complex nexuses of causality of differing modalities. When
faced with significnant crises, human beings inquire and take positions on
the whys of the crises. What is going on? what made the crisis? How can
it be resolved? One tendency in approaching a crisis is to attempt to
answer such questions in simplistic ways that do not do justice to the
complexity of the causal connections, the additional crises revealed or
generated by the crisis, and the not-all-right preceding conditions and
dynamics that affect many people leading up to and within the crisis.
Attending to complex causality allows us to see that crises are often
syndemics, and to register the ways in which some people are much more
vulnerable. From ethics and leadership perspectives, we ought not only to
attend to common goods, but also to place ourselves in solidarity with the
vulnerable.
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