The Conscience Crisis: Understanding Moral Injury

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack What happens when the deepest wound isn't from what you witnessed, but from what you were forced to do? Or couldn't prevent? What happens when the injury isn't to your sense of safety, but to your sense of self? That's moral injury. It's what happens when someone violates their own deeply held values, witnesses others do so, or gets betrayed by institutions they trusted. It's not "I'm afraid this will happen again"—it's "I can't live with what I'v...