When I asked them why did you commit a genocide while they were just civilians so not even trained military members 70% of former perpetrators in Randa said I just followed orders and in Cambodia they report exactly the same reason
for - genocide - why? just following orders - Rawanda and Cambodia interviewees reported the same results - just following orders
I just interviewed soldiers who just returned from Gaza and they said exactly the same
for genocide - Israeli soldiers - give same reason for committing atrocities - just following orders
Literally everyone is just following orders from the machine.
See Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt.
“It spells out so clearly that Nazi Germany’s worst atrocities and many atrocities the world over were not only the ideas of singular evil men. They were supported and enacted by systems, by groups of people who woke up in the morning and went to offices to work on it.”
— Avery Trufelman, Nice Try! Podcast