Theyd rather commit suicide instead of trying to use their armaments to fix their leaders head in a blaze of glory? I was going to say we were losing the only ones with hearts in there but its more likely they are just stupid…
Stupid? Now that’s not fair! Sure, some of them must be idiots, but what you’re failing to see is that even more of them, maybe even most of them, are also complete and utter fucking cowards. The kind that realize they could do just as you’ve proposed but chose to keep their tails between their legs and let this murder machine continue razing women, men, and children alike.
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Seriously though, I am sure some of them were stupid or foolish enough to believe, at first, that what they were doing was not as bad as it so obviously is from the outside. Propaganda works and, while individuals may be immune to some forms of it, no person is immune to the entire concept. Given the right circumstances on the right day, any person who has ever lived could be pushed to do things they think unimaginable of themselves. For worse and for better, all the same. I’m not saying we should feel bad for these people, because I do not think we should. But we absolutely need to understand that there is a system in place that is intent on obscuring one’s ability to reason and understand, just as well as it convinces them that what they’re signing up for has nothing to do with what they are actually signing up for. Many of these schmucks were definitely tricked into this, as is always the case with operations of this sort. Every nazi is still a dirty fucking nazi and I refuse to aim my sympathy their way, but it is vital to remember that some choose it because of the hate in their hearts, while others choose it because they were taught to not realize they had a choice at all. That difference matters if our goal is to actually change this world for the better, rather than just signal that we want people to think we want that change.
Theyd rather commit suicide instead of trying to use their armaments to fix their leaders head in a blaze of glory? I was going to say we were losing the only ones with hearts in there but its more likely they are just stupid…
Stupid? Now that’s not fair! Sure, some of them must be idiots, but what you’re failing to see is that even more of them, maybe even most of them, are also complete and utter fucking cowards. The kind that realize they could do just as you’ve proposed but chose to keep their tails between their legs and let this murder machine continue razing women, men, and children alike.
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Seriously though, I am sure some of them were stupid or foolish enough to believe, at first, that what they were doing was not as bad as it so obviously is from the outside. Propaganda works and, while individuals may be immune to some forms of it, no person is immune to the entire concept. Given the right circumstances on the right day, any person who has ever lived could be pushed to do things they think unimaginable of themselves. For worse and for better, all the same. I’m not saying we should feel bad for these people, because I do not think we should. But we absolutely need to understand that there is a system in place that is intent on obscuring one’s ability to reason and understand, just as well as it convinces them that what they’re signing up for has nothing to do with what they are actually signing up for. Many of these schmucks were definitely tricked into this, as is always the case with operations of this sort. Every nazi is still a dirty fucking nazi and I refuse to aim my sympathy their way, but it is vital to remember that some choose it because of the hate in their hearts, while others choose it because they were taught to not realize they had a choice at all. That difference matters if our goal is to actually change this world for the better, rather than just signal that we want people to think we want that change.