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The threat of coercion or death serves to make people behave contrary to their own moral code. Statistically speaking the odds are good you'd do no differently than the average German under the same conditions.

There are always a few Schindlers around, but not nearly enough.

It's like this, an airplane failed to take off properly. Instead it faltered, hit a bridge, bounced upside down and came down in the river. A few passengers in the tail managed to survive ~ one man still strapped to his seat was unable to get free.

While in the water thousands of others gathered on the riverbank and watched from a distance.

The fellow in the water helped his fellow passengers get out of the wreckage and onto the ice where they were safer (if not actually safe).

One man jumped into the water, and made his way through the ice to the plane. Then another man jumped in. Others on shore threw out ropes and tires.

Thousands of others continued to watch.

Your describing human nature very well. On that we agree. I’m not sure you realize, however, the mitigating factor represented by good preaching. Good pastors put their flocks on a courageous footing; bad pastors put them to sleep.

I hear ya. THere but for God's grace go I. All of us would have been crying out 'crucify him' too... just a few days after welcoming him into the city with praises. Statistically speaking the odds are good you'd do no differently than the average German under the same conditions.

Thank you. I wouldn't be so foolish as to say I know for sure i'd pass that test.

There are always a few Schindlers around, but not nearly enough.

Interestingly enough, he wasn't a believer was he?

And others might castigate him for profiting off of cheap labor and that that was the only reason he saved those Jews. Well, we realize it was more than that. But the stress of it all seems to have ruined him in the end (as I heard).