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Vanishingly few would experience that detachment for anything they were personally involved with.

Possibly so, which is why decision-making is so often delegated to those who have no personal involvement.

This is how people get shipped to ovens.

"Just executing the law, bro"

In this case it would result in their being repatriated to their countries of origin. Usually these are ovens only in a figurative sense.

Well, let's not bring the Nazis into it. If you're deporting people to Syria or Somalia or some other dangerous place (which they sometimes have no memory of), it's quite bad enough.

Legal terms (like "country of origin") are abstractions that often hide what that consequences of a decision actually are.

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