Except that according to the Milgram experiment, you would not have shot your superior who gave the orders to shoot the Jews, you would have shot the Jews instead. Just as they’d ordered you to do. The military is conditioned to follow orders, and that’s what we want them to to do. Their job is to kill people and break things when told to do so. So I give them a great deal of deference.
And I will go back to what I’ve learned not only from the Milgrim experiment, a study of Nazi Germany, and some observations of our own country. People and institutions can slide into depravity and become numb to it. No, you wouldn’t go stuff Jews into ovens today because someone in a position of authority told you to. But with the proper conditioning and preparation.... The Germans never thought it would happen to them, and then recoiled in horror when they walked throught the camps they created. Their leaders cried in their cells after watching the motion pictures they made of their Holocaust, knowing they would surely meet the hangman for it.
We don’t think it can can happen here. So just when do Americans recoil in horror over our Holocaust at Planned Parenthood? When do the Planned Parenthood administrators cry in their cells?
OK, enough self righteous bloviating. ;)
Perhaps the Milgram experiment teaches you that, but the New Testament experiment—and its Lead Scientist—exerts a mightier pull on me. You’re correct that the number of soldiers and guards who rebelled is miniscule, but I trust I would be one.