Analysis Of Theodore Sartwell's Obedience To Authority

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Although both authors address moral hierarchies, Theodore Dalrymple approaches the issue with positivity and how it can benefit society while Crispin Sartwell emphasizes more of the negative side and sees geneocide as evil. A strong argument that Sartwell makes is that the qualities that are needed to recruit a person to genocide are widely shared. Therefore, none of us are “profoundly different than German, Hutus and average Americans” that have been caught in genocidal acts (Sartwell 1). Sartwell suggests that we are deeply evil and anyone who thinks otherwise is either a “moral hero or profoundly

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