Following Orders Against Our Morals
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO FOLLOW ORDERS THAT GO AGAINST THEIR MORALS
“Tearful day when, from ashes, man shall rise to be judged guilty.” These are the last words written by the great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his "Requiem ", or "funeral mass". These words also describe the day that the Nazi soldiers were declared guilty and sentenced to death at Nuremberg. In the Nuremberg war crime trials, the Nazis pleaded "not guilty" to charges brought against them regarding the treatment of Jews in concentration camps, by reason that they were simply following orders given to them by superiors. When most people look at this from emotional human viewpoints, it seems like a perfectly just punishment, and their reasons were simply excuses; but as we look at history, and especially at human psychology a little closer, it turns out that...