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I actually think “just a job” is a justification in the following ways. - Soldiers and police are a thing in society. They use violence in ways deemed just by
by groundzeros2015 4mo ago
I actually think “just a job” is a justification in the following ways.
- Soldiers and police are a thing in society. They use violence in ways deemed just by society. I do not think their role is immoral.
- From experience I know that the number of people who can look at the incentive structure they are in and decide to operate outside it is basically 1%. Humans just aren’t wired that way.
- So I do not know in what ways a Nazi soldier could stop doing what they were doing - except in the same way you are free to escape industrial society and capitalism, by moving into a cabin in the woods in isolation.
This is why leadership is so essential. The leaders we choose and the systems we build around them determine what people will actually do.
Individual moral failure is self-inflicted not systematic.