[akudha]

Ok, fair enough.

The truth is, if you and I were raised there, we probably would

But that is kinda what I said though, isn’t it?

Anyway, I wasn’t trying to make them sound like monsters (except the rulers, they sure are).

I’ll try to word things better, next time.

[stavros]

It's not so much about the wording, it's about this line of argumentation separating us from them. I especially dislike this line of thinking when thinking about Nazi Germany and the atrocities there, because people tend to think "no sane person would do that, and we're sane, so we won't do it".

Instead, a much better line of thinking is "normal people can do this, under specific circumstances, so we should be very careful not to fall into the same trap ourselves".