Leading a killing organization does not automatically make one evil

Evidence

Of course, this does not imply that those who command such organizations are always evil, or that those organizations must necessarily shift in this fashion. The Argentine generals and Hitler were evil; I, at least, do not think that the Army high command in the Vietnam conflict was. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3990

Categorization

• QUESTION: Where exactly is the line between the Argentine generals/Hitler and the American Vietnam high command? The author asserts a moral distinction but doesn’t defend it here.
• XREF: connects to: Focusing on obeying subordinates ignores genocidal initiators and degrees of evil — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 2007