(February 19, 2020 at 1:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's actually pretty hard to motivate yourself to torture. The people who do it professionally get rotated so that it doesn't scramble their shit. I think that you might find it alot easier than you think, even with hitler, to pass on torture.
Humans are not hard wired to torture others for the most part. But for the vile dictators who have come about in human history, there is always something missing in their upbringing even if a mere lack of empathy.
And "rotating" people out, still does not change the holocaust, Hitler, Stalin or Po Pot. Attila The Hun, was a brutal authoritarian. And even in ancient China, the Terracotta Warriors were living under a extreme authoritarian rule that would make Orwell blush.
As long as our species has existed in our current form, there have been points worldwide where a leader has managed to get otherwise reasonable people to do horrible things.
