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Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity

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The 10 Factors Which Enable People to Kill

The 10 factors which enable people in organizations to kill are I number one, incrementalism and peer conformity. The way that the doctors who'd taken the Hippocratic oath at Auschwitz ended up selecting people for the gas chambers is staggering. It's extraordinarily hard to go against what everybody else around you, your peers are accepting.

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