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    Default Re: Demjanjuk Convicted of as an Accessory to 28,060 Murders at Sobibor

    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    No need to sympathise with them nobody is asking for that. But they aren't necesarily responsible for what happened there. I sometimes wonder what I would do in such a situation, and if I'm honest with myself I would probably be pushing victims into the gas chamber just like everybody else. When someone tells you to do something you are no longer burdened with the responsibility of the act, see the Milgram experiment
    Let's say you grew up in that drug city on the US-mexican border whose name I cannot remember atm(the one with all the shooting).

    You're young and poor, with no hope of gaining an income except by joining the drug industry. You advance, and start working as a hitman, killing several people. I can easily see someone doing that, but does that really excuse your crimes? Should you not be treated as other murderers?
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    Default Re: Demjanjuk Convicted of as an Accessory to 28,060 Murders at Sobibor

    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Let's say you grew up in that drug city on the US-mexican border whose name I cannot remember atm(the one with all the shooting).

    You're young and poor, with no hope of gaining an income except by joining the drug industry. You advance, and start working as a hitman, killing several people. I can easily see someone doing that, but does that really excuse your crimes? Should you not be treated as other murderers?
    By doing so you make a concious choice to advance in a certain enviroment, such is not the case with being positioned as a guard in a concentration-camp. Thing is, if we haven't learned that normal people can do horrible things we haven't learned anything at all.

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