Following on the "if you happen to be in Nazi Germany" thing, there's also the fine-grainedness of your goodness/badness to think of. Never mind Nazi Germany, think of the segregated South (or Boston during the period of enforced busing in the 1970s): people can be very kind, sweet, loving in one aspect of their life, or many, or most, and simply terrible in another. Your going-with-the-flow thing still applies; I guess what I'm thinking of is how many levels and areas of being good or bad there are. Hell, Sophie Scholl could have been routinely rude to shopkeepers (but probably wasn't).
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Date: 2016-04-19 11:47 am (UTC)