Reddit reviews Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

I remember reading one of the causes of the Khmer Rouges brutality was the constant artillery strikes and bombing runs against them as they worked their way to Phnom Penh. I wonder if something similar is going on here. Constant warfare changes people.


Edit: There's a pretty good book on this subject called Becoming Evil.

A lot of people consciously/subconsciously want an excuse to exploit other people, and the easiest way is often to think of them as objects not people.

For sex:

For power:

For conquest:

For meaning:

For varying personal reasons: