Made up a term: “Complicity Hitler.” An average-performing human in a system that is judged to be Totally Evil, and therefore ends up judged as a Complicity Hitler via pro-rata share of systemic evil.
Example: “Omigod you used a straw at Starbucks, you’re a Complicity Hitler!”
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Sufficient stupidity is the only credible moral defense against being judged a Complicity Hitler. What your brain cannot grok, your conscience cannot be expected to bother you about. If a conscience is maladaptive, stupidity may even be adaptive within a complex evil system.
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Never be smarter than required by the narrowest definition of your job. Plausible morality.
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Hannah Arendt said that Eichmann was outrageously stupid.
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This makes me think that there are two ways to be “successful”: be super smart or super stupid.
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