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“Perpetrators did not become fellow victims (as many of them later claimed to be) in the way some victims became accomplices of the perpetrators. The relationship between perpetrator and victim was not symmetrical. The range of choice each faced was totally different.”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
“As the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 demonstrates, mass murder and routine had become one. Normality itself had become exceedingly abnormal.”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.”14”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life.
One is that of Buddha and Jesus, which stresses the feminine virtues, considers all men to be equally precious, resists evil only by returning good, identifies virtue with love, and inclines in politics to unlimited democracy.
Another is the ethic of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, which stresses the masculine virtues, accepts the inequality of men, relishes the risks of combat and conquest and rule, identifies virtue with power, and exalts an hereditary aristocracy.
A third, the ethic of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, denies the universal applicability of either the feminine or the masculine virtues; considers that only the informed and mature mind can judge, according to diverse circumstance, when love should rule, and when power; identifies virtue, therefore, with intelligence; and advocates a varying mixture of aristocracy and democracy in government.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
One is that of Buddha and Jesus, which stresses the feminine virtues, considers all men to be equally precious, resists evil only by returning good, identifies virtue with love, and inclines in politics to unlimited democracy.
Another is the ethic of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, which stresses the masculine virtues, accepts the inequality of men, relishes the risks of combat and conquest and rule, identifies virtue with power, and exalts an hereditary aristocracy.
A third, the ethic of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, denies the universal applicability of either the feminine or the masculine virtues; considers that only the informed and mature mind can judge, according to diverse circumstance, when love should rule, and when power; identifies virtue, therefore, with intelligence; and advocates a varying mixture of aristocracy and democracy in government.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Along with ideological indoctrination, a vital factor touched upon but not fully explored in Milgram’s experiments was conformity to the group. The battalion had orders to kill Jews, but each individual did not. Yet 80 to 90 percent of the men proceeded to kill, though almost all of them—at least initially—were horrified and disgusted by what they were doing. To break ranks and step out, to adopt overtly nonconformist behavior, was simply beyond most of the men. It was easier for them to shoot.”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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