I heard about a fascinating post-Holocaust study that I think is super relevant to what is going on today.

The gist of it is that the perpetrators considered themselves victims of a world conspiring against them, and the awful things they were doing were just defensive. Remind you of anyone?

The heroic helpers, people who risked themselves protecting victims, didn’t really want to do it. They just couldn’t live with themselves if they ignored the victims in need. The bystanders just wanted to keep their heads down.

The study seems too analogous to what’s happening today to ignore.