They were manipulated.

If I applied that argument to drunk drivers you’d be as forgiving ?

That aside, we’re all manipulated, it’s relegions resson de entre for example, but why wern’t they manipulated by people kindness, togetherness etc ? 80% literally dont care about good and evil.

Kurt Vonnegut, on Susan Sontag

She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.