The easy thing to do here is to exonerate the individual while blaming the system in which the individual participates, and such a verdict is justified inasmuch as the system has become so massive and pervasive that the livelihood of the individual is made to depend on his or her participation in it. (This isn’t even to speak of the ways in which some systems will privilege certain groups of people while oppressing or disenfranchising others). But to ignore the fact that the individual has, in many cases, recourse to another mode of existence, one that disengages from a system, and that forgoes the consistent but soulless returns that it offers, for one’s allegiance to it, by staking out a territory where there is no system, or a system that does not exploit human nature, and its proclivity for sin, is to underestimate the sovereignty of the will that belongs to every person.