I like to think if I were alive during the Nazi era, I wouldn't have become a Nazi.
But I know, chances are, I would have most likely ended up as one of those German citizens who would have gradually become part of the Nazi machine.
I think it's perhaps safer to recognise the line between good and evil runs through every person, and not be presumptive to think of oneself as being part of a select group of virtuous people.
I can think of many recent occurrences where people who think they are acting virtuously, are in fact the perpetrators of harm, without knowing it; so convinced they are of their own virtue.
But I know, chances are, I would have most likely ended up as one of those German citizens who would have gradually become part of the Nazi machine.
I think it's perhaps safer to recognise the line between good and evil runs through every person, and not be presumptive to think of oneself as being part of a select group of virtuous people.
I can think of many recent occurrences where people who think they are acting virtuously, are in fact the perpetrators of harm, without knowing it; so convinced they are of their own virtue.