Hitler's willing executioners
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Read on Hacker News"It's not the people who are evil, but the regime ..." I'm not sure about the North Korean case, but an author argued a few years back in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" that most WWII-era Germans were happy and willing to go along with the despot's genocide and total war. "1984" ends with Smith Winston seemingly coerced into the attitude "[I] loved Big Brother". I'm not so sure he had no choice ... I think people usually are complicit in that which they tolerate and support. People can be evil. In the U.S. we are too, in ways we usually don't acknowledge. And sure, I broke the rule "if you have to bring up Hitler in an argument, you've already lost". So be it.
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