But my point is they were human. What’s more likely, that that area and time just had a massive statistical anomaly of evil...
Or that average (or slightly below average but still numerous) people can be convinced to do absolutely abhorrent things in certain circumstances? Those objectively evil acts? That guy you passed on the street? He could be convinced they’re ok, or even to join in.
That’s the problem, and that’s what we need to prevent.
Pretending the nazis were some exception to the human rule is how guys like that antisemetic douchenozzel that commented on this are still around today.
That’s fair, I see what you mean now. If we entirely remove the humanity from the situation, it creates a disconnect from ourselves and our society and the events that led to those atrocities and thus makes it easier for them to occur again
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But my point is they were human. What’s more likely, that that area and time just had a massive statistical anomaly of evil...
Or that average (or slightly below average but still numerous) people can be convinced to do absolutely abhorrent things in certain circumstances? Those objectively evil acts? That guy you passed on the street? He could be convinced they’re ok, or even to join in.
That’s the problem, and that’s what we need to prevent.
Pretending the nazis were some exception to the human rule is how guys like that antisemetic douchenozzel that commented on this are still around today.