One thing at a time. If an institution does harm on an institutional scale,
it deserves the fate it deserves. It stands on its own in that. What other institutions do is not at issue. One case at a time.
Trying to diffuse the harm done by one organization by pointing out that other organizations have similar issues accomplishes nothing. It merely diffuses the issue. There is no solution that is aided by misdirection and substitution.
An organization is what it is. It could be religious, commercial, public, or private. It is that organization, not another one. We look at individuals as individuals. We need to look at institutions and organizations in the same way. Each stands on its own merits or is destroyed by its own faults.
There is nothing wrong with focusing on the wrongdoings of an organization. There is nothing to be gained by pointing out similar problems in other organizations. We need to deal with each on its own.
Whataboutism is a common diffusion method. It's very popular with people who are trying to somehow excuse the failings of an organization by pointing at the failings of another. That doesn't work. It's inappropriate. Instead, we should deal with each failing organization in turn. Diffusion does not change the evil that is done...it simply distracts from it.
This is the Religion Group. We discuss religion and religious organizations here. That is the group's focus. Let's not divert from that focus by diffusing harm through pointing at other types of organization.
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