In massacres and genocides conducted by military or large groups of people, why is it so easy to carry out such horrible acts?

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I was browsing some top posts and saw the defiant citizen image of tiananmen square. I then went on a rabbit hole about how truly tragic the event was and I just couldn’t help but think, even if I was part of their military there’s no way I would be ok with gunning down innocent people and literally driving over them in tanks.

I know it’s probably naive to think like that but what makes its “ok” to do for those that aren’t the ones making the decisions?

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Jordan Peterson explains this very well with some of his parallels to Nazis in WW2. You should be able to find something on youtube

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