Comments by "Clown Life" (@Clownlife432) on "INSANE Sheriff Caught On Camera Ordering Officers To Lie." video.
-
7
-
@bodyrumuae2914 the war crime thing isn’t on another level. If you care to read up about it please check out David Grossmans book On Killing. He was a Ranger, a West Point professor, and a psychologist and studied how military’s get people to kill. Part of his research was around war crimes, and it’s the exact t same thing you see here. The responsibility is obfuscated through the order mechanism. The person ordering says I didn’t pull the trigger, and the person pulling the trigger says I was ordered to do it. This obfuscates the responsibility and as a secondary aspect binds them together in an alliance, because they must now cover for each other. This is exactly the same, the only difference is that it was done by this man’s own government vs a foreign state. When you watch the video the police chief repeatedly says don’t worry I ordered you to. I guarantee if he was charged all of a sudden it would be I would expect him to use personal judgment of course. Another great book on the topic is Hannah Arendts Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. In it she discusses that most people aren’t monsters and to do these things you need to understand that most people will stick with societal norms and expectations, follow rules, follow orders, and do their jobs. The end conclusion is that most evil perpetrated is done by regular people like that second cop. The difference between this and a war crime is only different in magnitude. Another great book is where police are used for the killings is ordinary men. All of it comes from the same place, which is when one hasn’t developed their morality and ethics they will do whatever they are told. So I see no difference in these. This second cop was the same type of person that would load someone into a train cart or shot someone into a mass grave. Mass killing events after all are just a bunch of single events put together.
1