In Plain Sight: How Harm Becomes Ordinary in Systems We Trust

by Micah Ellory

In Plain Sight is a quiet examination of how harm becomes ordinary inside systems that present themselves as lawful, professional, and necessary. Rather than arguing by comparison or ideology, the book traces recurring how legality replaces moral judgment, how bureaucracy diffuses responsibility, how language creates distance, and how trust erodes when explanation arrives faster than grief. Moving carefully through history, contemporary case studies, and moral reflection, it asks not who is to blame, but what happens to conscience when power is insulated from consequence. This is not a book that offers prescriptions or reassurance. It is an invitation to notice what we have been trained to accept, and to sit with the cost of that acceptance.

109 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 14, 2026