Horrific Events

People choose to participate in horrific events because they may not have a choice and are fearful, but to do so. Governments target people to help them and they basically make them participate or they will kill them. The choice the people have is to either get shot and die or participate. It is a very hard decision to make, but I would rather be dead than to kill and torture my friends and neighbors. If the tortured go on and live their life after the coup, they will always remember the betrayed people who wouldn't take their own life, but another's. I don't know how those friends who tortured their friends could live another day with that guilt of killing or almost killing someone they were once close to because trust me, they won't ever become close to the torturers again no matter if they ask for forgiveness. I would rather take my own life and not suffer the aftermath and experiences during the coup and concentration camps. What they also did was brainwash all the youth like in the Holocaust Hitler had the Nazi Youth club which so many children signed up for. At the club the Nazis were able to manipulate the children into turning in their own neighbors. Also, peer pressure plays a big role in this. If a boss or someone more powerful or higher on the totem pole tells you to do something often times you will do what they ask; following others. Which is also is connected to what others think. If more people think one way, it is more likely for you to follow and join the power of the group. REVENGE: this also plays a role when people, for example, are like hey these people killed your parents and everyone gets mad at each other. There are lots of reasons.