Maybe I am projecting myself into their situation, as you say. For me it would be an incredibly gut-wrenching time. For the people who made assassination attempts on Hitler (what were there? 17 different attempts?) I’m sure it was gut-wrenching.
Maybe for the rest it was just inconvenient that the smell of burning flesh spoiled the mood of their tea party.
There were not even 10 righteous people in Sodom, and Lot’s immediate family had more than 10 in it. So maybe you’re right. Maybe for such heinous things to be accepted it must have been the easiest road to just go along with it.
That’s how we ended up with the financial crash too - too many people thinking that EVERYBODY couldn’t be wrong. And the whole philosophy of “too big to fail” only feeds the idea that as long as the whole herd is together there is no need to worry about it walking off the cliff.
Many of those attempts to kill Hitler were driven by pride in Germany’s war-like military-like nature, in that Hitler was running the war poorly. Little to do with the fate of the Untermenschen such as the Jews.
This is not unlike how many here. all opposing Obama — including the MANY pundits who are reading this every thread — have refused to speak well, or at all, of the sub-human idiots known as ‘Birthers’.