Thank you for your input. I’m not sitting at a keyboard, so I can’t deliver the same effort in a response.
But yes. Yes, what you’re saying is accurate.
“I was following orders” is the defense, in a nutshell.
I welcome further conversation if you would like. I am a reasonable human. I can explain how i came to this end.
I understand your point of view.
I think what we will see from some quarters is that the people following orders had no option but to take part in this wholesale murder of “hundreds or thousands” of people.
If we take this to its logical conclusion, these same people will have no defense against following orders to commit murder (as people maintain) because if that is the defense, they too are murdering for financial reasons, ie they don’t wish to give up their jobs and look for another job in which they won’t be called on to participate in the murder of any number of people.
They are absolutely free to do so, and SHOULD do so if they feel they are being forced by the need for a paycheck to take part in. those murders.
It is their choice NOT to leave. At least Nazi soldiers who were executing people had their own lives that might have been ended if they had stood up and said they wouldn’t do it. If a paycheck is the motivation not to leave, that leaves them with no leg to stand on.