Reply #10: stop with that already

[pop goes the weasel]

Yeah, yeah. We know, that was the excuse of the Nazis at the concentration camps. But it is in reference to why they acted in specific ways that were clearly immoral. It isn't so clear to the average soldier, or average citizen, that their individual action is supporting the implementation of an overall immoral policy. People who do come to feel that they are being asked to carry out immoral orders should oppose those orders. But more often than not, orders are not clearly moral or immoral. And when those orders come from a trusted authority that insists that what it is ordering is for the ultimate good, it becomes very hard for the vast majority of people to disobey.

Read Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram. And come down off your high horse.