The Soldier Does Not Wish To Appear

The Disappearance Of A Sense Of Responsibility Is The Most Far-reaching Consequence Of Submission To Authority.

Some System Of Authority Is A Requirement Of All Communal Living, And It Is Only The Man Dwelling In Isolation Who Is Not Forced To Respond, Through Defiance Or Submission, To The Commands Of Others.

Ordinary People, Simply Doing Their Jobs, And Without Any Particular Hostility On Their Part, Can Become Agents In A Terrible Destructive Process. Moreover, Even When The Destructive Effects Of Their Work Become Patently Clear, And They Are Asked To Carry Out Actions Incompatible With Fundamental Standards Of Morality, Relatively Few People Have The Resources Needed To Resist Authority.

For A Person To Feel Responsible For His Actions, He Must Sense That The Behavior Has Flowed From The Self.

Relatively Few People Have The Resources Needed To Resist Authority.