>>10164450And also, deferred collective responsibility is deeply ingrained in their workplace environments and culture. They think, if not me someone else. They think they're just doing what there is to do, what they think is interesting, and it's up to society to decide what's what. That's what they tell themselves. Unlike the doctor or lawyer, who's direct and in the trenches, their work has more degrees of separation.
This is pretty much how any society works. For example the Nazis. They found you couldn't just have one man shooting people all day. Ordinary soldiers broke down eventually, morale plummeted even when you plucked out the sociopaths and sadists, and it was a waste of ammunition. So they moved more primarily to the work camps and killed them in the gas chambers, etc. It's all about degrees of separation, shared responsibility, and temporal separation.