wow...
Read an interview about a member of the French Resistance during WWII. Some of the hero's friends joined the Resistance, some actively supported the Germans, and many stayed quiet and kept their heads down. Was it surprising who did what?
"I'd asked if he was surprised when the guy betrayed the group. No, he said, he wasn't really surprised by anyone's behavior during that desperate preriod. 'Even the kids in my high school," he said, 'I could have predicted beforehand how almost every one of them would act. It wasn't so different from how they'd always been before'.
At the time it seemed a stunning thought: that by our routine behaviors and seemingly banal choices, we reveal what we're ultimately made of. But of course it is absolutely so. It is by the incidental tests, day by day and hour by hour, that we establish what we are about; and, indeed, how we will respond when most severely tested."
-Harry Stein
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