We as a people have yet to learn that I was only following orders is not a reason to inflict inhuman treatment on another person. The excuse it is in the manual is not an excuse. It was one of the tools I was taught to use, just because you have been taught how to use a tool does not mean it needs to be used in an inhuman method.
Currently both sides of the protest/riot issues ongoing in America and in other countries around the world are using excuses for their action. All the violence of that last 8 months because of pent-up frustrations.
People ignoring and re writing history to benefit their cause.To justify their actions. I would like to see it change, but I don't think people are capable of being nice to each other. Society and culture always get in the way of the individual.
Only following orders that if given at a different time, would never be followed. It is the series of yesses - one indiscretion at a time.
What is going on socially now is very similar and I fear that we are headed in the same direction and outcomes as the past.