Moral dilemma: victim as executioner

The nasty dilemma: “We were all prisoners, those who killed and those who were killed,” he said. “And in fact, for a lot of the staff there, the day came when they were killed, too. In the daytime we’d be eating together, and in the evening some were arrested and killed.”…Chum Mey, another survivor of Tuol Sleng, described 12 days and nights of torture and terror, but without bitterness toward his abusers. “My thought is not to put the blame on Him Huy because I don’t know what I would have done in his place,” he said. “I don’t think I would have been able to disobey.” Read story here.  If wondering what you’d do in this situation doesn’t make you cynical about human nature, then congratulations–you have ascended to glorious angel/god staus.