Because they will try to minimise the damage they've done or argue their involvement is under some altruistic intentions much like Sam Bankman Fried is doing. And it's important to give them conditions in the future, making sure they never get the executive position ever again.
Duh, they're setting themselves up to ask for forgiveness. "We didnt know it would get bad, our intentions were good!"
That's why if it's just amnesty for them, well there's no hope for the west. The only thing to do is nuremberg treatment.
why do show-trials with confessions under torture when we know what the jews did actually happened?
Because they will try to minimise the damage they've done or argue their involvement is under some altruistic intentions much like Sam Bankman Fried is doing. And it's important to give them conditions in the future, making sure they never get the executive position ever again.
rigth, we got kissinger going around playing ignorant wellmeaning victim as we speak.
which i see backfiring hard in german comment sections.