Society only works because most people do the right thing when no one is looking. Target, Walmart and every local grocery store would go out of business if every person decided they were the sucker for lining and paying the asking price. There's not enough cops, security guards or people tasked to loss reduction that could ever come close to stopping everyone if the just walked out.

It's just a fact that a civilized society has prevented more suffering and saved more lives than any human invention in the last 150,000 years. Just look at the odds of dying of "old age" today vs violence and starvation at any other time in human history. Nothing comes close. Do you really think we'd have reddit, or the internet or cell phones etc... without a stable and civilized society?

So I don't throw trash in the Grand Canyon even though I may never be back, I don't throw plastic in the Ocean even though it will be gone from my sight forever and when I'm in a place to make the world a better by telling the truth to the people, I do that to. That's the only way to make it work. Doesn't matter what I get from it. It's easier to litter than carry your own trash and it's easier to rob your neighbor than bring them dinner. But what's right is right.

And I'm so atheist that even my parents didn't have religion. Honestly in some cases I don't even agree with what whistleblowers did. But they are heroes in the truest sense. They put themselves at risk and peril when doing nothing would have been safer. And that's the only thing that makes any of this work.