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> What's the alternative? Open rebellion against the state? Yes. HTH! To elaborate: At some stage, that becomes the only acceptable alternative; not doing so
by CRConrad 4y ago
> What's the alternative? Open rebellion against the state?
Yes. HTH!
To elaborate: At some stage, that becomes the only acceptable alternative; not doing so is morally culpable.
The world learned that in 1945, two ways:
1) "I was only following orders" was deemed not a valid excuse at the Nürnberg trials; not refusing orders like that is complicity; and
2) Germany as a whole was de-Nazified. Just like Russia needs to be now. (But more thoroughly: in Germany's case, it was an aberration of a dozen years; in Russia's, it's a millennium of unbroken history of totalitarianism.)
Too bad the world seems to have forgotten those lessons since then.