There are some people who have a will to have something done, but they don't do it themselves. Instead, they get others to subsume their own will to the will of others, and do as the others want them to do. The former can be referred to as order-givers, and the latter as order-followers.
The order-givers may not be doing the action themselves, but their will is what is being done. Others follow order and do what they want, what they will, because they are told to do it and they do it. This applies in many jobs. We do things that others tell us to in order to get paid.
Is this a justification to do anything, just because we are told to in order to get paid? No, it's not a valid justification to justify an action. It's an excuse to try to "make-right" and justify something done. Just look at the Nuremberg trials to see if many soldiers were justified and had a "right" to do what they did. Many attempted to justify themselves and their actions by saying they were "just following orders".
Many bad things, wrongs, harm, immorality and evil is created into the world by the actions of some who will it themselves. But there is much more darkness in the world because powerful men give orders and will others who follow orders and do as the rulers and masters want.
Are you peaceful and non-violent when you will, order or convince others to do bad things for you? You didn't do it yourself. You got someone else to do it through various manipulations, like the allure of a paycheck. But that doesn't mean you are blame free, as if you carry no moral culpability and fault for what has happened. For every action, the is someone who created it. There is always a source for an actions, and there is always fault and blame to be associated with immoral actions, no matter the justification or excuse.
The person who did the action is the one doing the action. They could choose not to do the action. They are the tip of the spear that is most to blame, that carries the most fault and culpability for has occurred. The order-follower does the action, letting themselves be directed like a spear to go off in the direction the order-giver tells them to. But don't forget who sent them on their way to create harm, chaos and mayhem in the lives of others.
The order-followers might be the most to blame for actually doing the actions, because without them doing it, the action wouldn't be done. But the order-givers are the ones that get them to do it, and without them telling people to do it, the order-followers wouldn't have that influence to go do it.
Both share blame, guilt, fault and culpability in the creation of wrongs, harm, immorality and evil, but the order-followers are the ones who can choose to say "NO!" and stop doing what they re doing. They are ultimately the ones who bear the brunt of the responsibility of guilt, shame, blame, judgment, culpability and fault for the actions they themselves engaged in. Many of them take measures into their own hands, and use the authority passed down from the ruling order-givers. They are authorized to do as they do because they are the authorities.
The order-followers let their own authority be supplanted by the authority of others who rule them. It's almost like being a puppet, like being mind-controlled, where you are an empty shell or husk being taken over by others who control what you do.
I'm reminded of the phrase "thy will be done" in the "Lord's Prayer", or said by the character Jesus as well I think. The rulers and masters of society have taken on the role of a "god" it seems, where their will is what will be done. And it doesn't only apply to the military or police that go around doing harm to others because someone told them to do something. Government employees follow the will of those who create directives for how things are to operate in society.
And not only that, the rest of us, the people, the citizenry, are order-followers as well, as the will of the governmental body becomes the "law of the land" for everyone else to follow, right or wrong. It's supposed to be the reverse, where the people get to decide what the government does, but it doesn't seem to work out like that in large part.
We have lost power over our own lives in varying degrees. We are disempowered and made to believe we have power with elections. Are we stuck to forever have our wills supplanted by the wills of others who rule over us? Will we ever be free from masters and rulers? It's possible.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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