Calculated self-interest was reframed as a moral duty by collaborators
Evidence
Rationally calculated ‘gain’ was then re-forged into a moral obligation. ‘Yes, it is my duty to foul my hands’, decided Gens, the self-appointed God of Vilna Jews, the killer who died convinced that he was the Saviour. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 397
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 382; Sanctions make trustworthiness a matter of self-interest rather than personal concern; Reform succeeded only where conscience aligned with self-interest — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3200
Related
- Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. (similarity 0.82)