The holocaust wasn't an issue of pacifists turning into werewolves, and indifference is the product of familiarity in people regardless of any moral code.
Killing for the greater good was already contained in the good. It didn't take the construction or acceptance of a new moral code, just the construction of an argument that satisfied the norms already well established and privileged by society.
It's still there. We use all the same arguments now aimed to pull the same levers and it still works. That's how we ended up with camps full of kids in the deserts with some fucking ghoul collecting uteruses.
Killing for the greater good was already contained in the good. It didn't take the construction or acceptance of a new moral code, just the construction of an argument that satisfied the norms already well established and privileged by society.
It's still there. We use all the same arguments now aimed to pull the same levers and it still works. That's how we ended up with camps full of kids in the deserts with some fucking ghoul collecting uteruses.
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