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amraa is a term that came about while
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trying to understand how perfectly
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decent German citizens could get
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involved in the atrocities that they did
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Hitler now the word means office speak
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and it's a way that we use language to
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deny the responsibility that we have for
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the choices that we make so rather than
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saying you know I chose to do this
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because whatever reason I had for doing
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it we say it was necessary it was my
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duty it must happen it's the rules and
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there's lots of constructs in our
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language that enable us to sidestep our
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responsibility in this way so another
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one would be it's just what you do right
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so in in a certain situation you know
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when you're in a relationship you treat
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your partner with respect or you give
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them what they ask whatever it is you
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know and there's an implication there
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that that would be the normal thing to
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do and therefore not doing it is wrong
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so there's no sense of like owning that
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that's how I want that person to behave
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it's simply laying down this amraa this
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office speak that that's how good people
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that's how normal people behave and
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therefore if you're not behaving like
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that you're not normal you're bad you're
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wrong and I'll try and shame you into
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behaving the way that I
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want and hopefully you can see that this
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is not taking responsibility it's just
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like it's how things should be nothing
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to do with what I want you know it
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wasn't me and and people can do some
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really terrible stuff on this basis
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because they're just not taking
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responsibility for their choices and
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obviously a lot of it is cultural
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education but I think it's a really
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important one to look at and just be
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aware aware of you know we do things
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because we choose to generally it's not
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often that we got someone putting a gun
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to our head and saying you know if you
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don't do this I'm going to shoot you or
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your family and just to kind of own that
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than yeah just kind of imply it's what
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should happen using this very kind of
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passive um responsibility denying
