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**** Much like the example of William Ellison above, throughout history many slaves owned slaves themselves and almost all freedmen did, as was the case in Ancient Rome. Also, Roman slaves occupied quite prestigious positions in society as well. So when slavery devolved into casual rape or horrific punishments of extremely minor misdeeds, it was easy to overlook it on account of how "''well''" it seemed to work out otherwise.
* The average soldier or civilian employee in any dictatorship. For most part, they're just ordinary people wanting to do ordinary jobs, but doing so allow the regime to keep on going.
** In a weird sort of way these can be both punch clock villains and punch clock heros. You will be hard put to it to find a regime that does not provide ''some'' useful public service if only to make sure there are healthy taxpayers to extort money from. On the Eastern Front in [[World War 2]] curiously the Red Army was to some degree protecting Russian civilians from the Wehrmacht in 1941 and in 1945 the Wehrmacht was [[Fridge Logic|protecting German civilians]] from the vengeance of the Red Army.
** Special mention should go to the average North Korean soldier, not the commandos, who don't even get a good paycheck. During the winter, on the Chinese border, these guards are ordered to shoot or arrest anybody who has wandered along the iced rivers and into/out of the North. They are said to be quite polite towards the Chinese who live along the border and routinely ask them for food, cigarettes, and even coal, pretty much anything to help them survive sentry duty in the winter.
* At a ''far'' less sinister level than all of these, but still worthy of mention: repo men (and women). Sure, they don't [[Repo! The Genetic Opera|take anyone's organs]], but most people still don't like their possessions being taken without their permission.
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* Hermann Göring, according to journalist and author Guido Knopp and others. He apparently didn't mind his younger brother Albert protecting Jews, as long as he didn't make any mess Hermann couldn't get him out of.
* Mercenaries and most hired guns in general. It's just a paycheck, and it's inevirtable in the line of work that people will be shot.
* Suicide Bombers curiously. They often do their job simply for a paycheck for their family.
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