Minor point of order. It's seldom an individual that does all that killing, it's usually a vast bureaucracy, a conspiracy of paper pushers and appeasers who do the thousands of little mundane details that insure that everything ins in place, all the t's are crossed, the i's dotted, the trains move the victims to the right camps, the showers have enough Zyklon, the front lines have beans and bullets, all the right forms, and all the right people live and the wrong ones die. It's the neighbors who under government orders watch and report, who never dare interfere, the teachers and preachers who assure their charges that this is all right and proper, just as they were told, or else.
No. The most dangerous words aren't: "Hi, I’m from the government, and I’m here to Kill you.”
They are: “Hi, we're from the government, and we're here to kill you.”
They are: “Hi, we're from the government, and we're here to kill you.”
Excellent point
I stand corrected.
Most of the minions of totalitarians do not have the courage to act alone.