Ethics of pilots fighting for the sides in WWII

[moilami]

Originally Posted by Ltbear

Put in the wrong situation at the wrong time many of us would do things we simply never thought we could do....

LTbear

True. Certainly everyone here would find their place in $machine, or $machine would show what their place in $machine is. And it doesn't matter at all are you now American or Russian or German because nobody here is better than people who lived 50 or 5000 years ago. We are just more lucky.

Or is someone saying that I am American or I am German or I am Russian or I am Finlander and I would not had done what "they" did in $country 50 years to 5000 years ago?

There is certain percent of people who refused to be part of the machine, and the machine showed them their places in the machine (they got shot, for example).

How big percent that was? Lets say it was 0.1%. It was probably smaller, but lets pretend it was that. Now before you begin to boast "me me me me me me me" think one minute are you currently in your machine part of that, for argument's sake, 0.1%? If you are mainstream folk, as the saying go, you would had found your place in the machine. If you are "good law abiding citizen", I think you would had most probably found easily your place in the machine, that is you would had been part of the machine.

Not blaming anyone. Just giving food for a thought.