No,
it would not be possible for me to be a commandant who supports the system.
For the you who you are now, true.
But if you had been brought up (impossible, I know, but this is a hypothetical) in a very militaristic Prussian family in Germany in say 1910 and been a schoolchild during WWI and lived through the glory and then the agony, and had the shame of the WWI defeat to live with and the poverty of your country after it for which obviously some scapegoat had to be responsible, and joined the military and all that, I can imagine you could easily have been a very successful commandant. You have the competence, the intelligence, the administrative ability to run a very successful camp.
Of course I'm arguing here a bit of Neo's position, that morality is learnt at your mother's knee, and so your ethics and morals would have been so drummed into you that the very idea that the Fuhrer could be wrong would be anathama to you. But even if you take the self-interest position, our view of what is in our best interests is also shaped by society to some extent, and you might well have seen your best interests lying in following your country's leaders where they sent you. |
