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by paulgb 5692 days ago
> I fundamentally oppose this reasoning as justification for doing something you think is wrong.

Nobody does evil all by themselves. If everyone thought like you do, there would be less room for evil in the world.

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Exactly. Personally I wish that, legally, using the Nuremberg ("just doing my job") Defense would get you a much more severe sentence. If no one were willing to do evil things because "it's their job" most of the biggest atrocities we can think of couldn't have been committed and we would have never heard of many of the most evil people in history. None of them could have accomplished anything all by themselves.