> The rise of the warrior cop is bad enough, but what about a crack squad that has been chemically desensitized to killing in cold blood, taking orders from cor

> The rise of the warrior cop is bad enough, but what about a crack squad that has been chemically desensitized to killing in cold blood, taking orders from corrupt officials? I read Eichmann in Jerusalem recently. One of the main arguments of the book is that people don't need to be extraordinary (i.e. lacking a conscience or particularly fanatical) in order to do terrible things. The book is controversial but I think that argument is correct. The problem with Nazi Germany was not a generation of Germans who happened to be born without consciences. And, horrifyingly, we've seen this pattern repeat across time and space. It just isn't necessary to chemically alter people to get them to perform actions that we would describe as evil.