05-13-2011, 04:27 PM
rjmacs wrote: I also don't think there's anything morally ambiguous about genocide or mass slaughter. However, our legal system is adept at holding individuals responsible but remarkably poor at bearing witness to systems that twist people into executioners.
That's one of the stupidest things I've ever read on this forum.
So, you kill 30,000 people and then you ask for clemency because "the system" made you do it.
Seriously?
Your buddies ran away, but you kept going. Killing them by the hundreds. Men, women and children.
The remains are being scavenged for the gold from their teeth. Your bosses are making soap and buttons from those people's fat and bones and you never questioned that? Never thought to stop.
Because someone told you that it was okay.
This is not the story of some kid raised in a basement and never learning how to behave like a civilized person. This was an adult who chose to murder those people and then chose to run away from justice.
But you'd forgive him because he wasn't responsible for his actions?
Bullsh!t.
"I was just following orders" is not an excuse for genocide.