| Anywhere people are permitted to oppress or control others without fear of supervision with penalties, people tend to behave in atrocious ways.Also, People who like to abuse others are attracted to jobs where such an environment is established (for example, inadequately supervised prison guards).This phenomenon has been studied extensively: if you have one population of controllers and one population of controlled, without adequate suppervision, the controllers inevitably commit atrocities against the controlled.With Israeli border police and soldiers, with inadequate penalties for misbehavior or resources for proper supervision, you have the perfect example of the above principle.Look at the deaths do to bulldozers.25 years ago, IDF bulldozer-operating soldiers did not destroy houses with people in them.The people were escorted out of the houses before the houses were destroyed.Peace activists of the day stood in front. the IDF waited.Houses were still destroyed but not people. |
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