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Morality does not disappear, but it is focused in a radically different way: the subordinate person experiences shame and pride depending on his good or bad execution of the act commanded by the authority. Language offers a great number of terms to designate this type of moral: loyalty, sense of duty, bop discipline... ordinary people, by simply doing their job, and without any particular hostility on their part, could become agents in a terribly destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become absolutely evident, and one asks them to execute actions incompatible with the fundamental norms of morality, relatively few people have the interior resources needed to resist authority. It is a mortal fault which seems to be natural in most people, and which, in the long run, leaves our species with only a mediocre . os chance of survival. It’s quite clear. Now we can understand why Jesus was crucified, why millions of people died at the hands of the Inquisition, during religious or civil wars, and in the Nazi massacres. It becomes easier to understand how an honest greengrocer or banker could have been a crucifier, or burn witches or become an SS soldier, sending women and children to the death chambers. They all thought they were doing something for the good of Humanity. The first ones were getting rid of an “illuminated” man who wanted to overthrow their traditions, and others felt that people who lived differently were surely responsible for the bad crops or the plague or even the 318 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS An act such as the electrocution of a victim, which seems bad when considered on its own, takes on a completely different Se pe meaning when placed in this environment. Such is without doubt the fundamental lesson of our study: the