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I am so fascinated by the Holocaust. I just don't understand how people can have it in them to be so cruel. How can they live with themselves?

 

Have you ever read "Night" by Elie Wiesel? I cried through a lot of it.

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I am so fascinated by the Holocaust. I just don't understand how people can have it in them to be so cruel. How can they live with themselves?
Too many people are willing to and can be easily persuaded into doing these terrible things. I think this Milgram experiment is interesting.

 

Conclusion of experiment:

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
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