All those things can be true, don't you think? That there are spineless sadists, amoral egotists, people who can easily deanimate others, people motivated by greed and without self awareness (think Wolf of Wallstreet), truly evil people who cannot under any circumstance return from that evil, who in fact have to keep perpetrating it repeatedly to stop their humanity from intruding, and these types of useful idiot bureaucrats with the psychopathology that gato is describing. I think all the time of Ionesco's Rhinoceros. People fell to the encroaching model in Soviet Russia, the Cultural Revolution and Nazi Germany and probably elsewhere at light speed. I think this is really insightful and comforting, and it goes to the point Bret Weinstein and Neil Oliver were discussing on the latest Dark Horse, that perhaps humanity has made enough psychological progress that most people can't send others to gas chambers. Perhaps. This is comforting to me as there's the possibility of stopping it. Evil is intractable. Hideous old vile creatures will breathe their last trying to enact evil to keep their minds consonant. Maybe?