The truth is most people would operate just fine in any environment, including Nazi Germany, justifying it like you just did. It's plain luck that they aren't.

The truth is most people would operate just fine in any environment, including Nazi Germany, justifying it like you just did. It's plain luck that they aren't. In this specific case it's very easy to morally justify such data collection to yourself, after all your friend was just torn to pieces by an IED placed by partisans, and another one two weeks ago. Russians are really "good" at this counter-insurgency game, they simply torture, run concentration camps, ethnically cleanse by sending to Siberia. Worked in Chechnya, works now in Ukraine.