I haven't hired you, I've just told you to do it. Please don't think that I'm defending the people instigating or encouraging evil, I'm only drawing attention to our willingness to do bad things because someone told us to.
If everyone followed the ten commandments there'd be no murder or any need for a manmade law against conspiring to commit murder. The actual sin/crime is the act, not anything preceding it.
If I tell you to kill a man and you do, have I sinned or have you?
I haven't hired you, I've just told you to do it. Please don't think that I'm defending the people instigating or encouraging evil, I'm only drawing attention to our willingness to do bad things because someone told us to.
If everyone followed the ten commandments there'd be no murder or any need for a manmade law against conspiring to commit murder. The actual sin/crime is the act, not anything preceding it.