Coerced killers can be left permanently unable to judge their own culpability.

Evidence

His story over, the boy looked at me … as my own tears flowed freely, and asked, “Now, you tell me. Do I have to do teshuvah?” — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 645

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The narrative’s final turn: no absolution settles the question of whether a coerced act makes one morally guilty.
• XREF: connects to: Moral disengagement can fail, leaving perpetrators tormented by guilt — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 228; Totalitarian terror engineers dilemmas where conscience can only choose between murders — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1014

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian terror engineers dilemmas where conscience can only choose between murders #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1014
• Moral disengagement can fail, leaving perpetrators tormented by guilt #corroborates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 228