Q Everett Hughes argues that behavior of this sort requires the complicity of “good people” who, while finding these acts abhorrent, might accept them being done by others. Clearly, the abuse at Abu Ghraib doesn’t compare to the Holocaust, but does it count as a case of “good people” farming out “dirty work” to others more willing to execute, if not enjoy, doing it? How could “good people” permit these kinds of things to happen? In your view, who was most responsible for this kind of conduct—those in charge or those who carried out the orders?
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