Yeah, truth. But imagine these same people holding the monopoly of force and violence (aka government) over other people
Discussion
I feel you. thing is that we make new nutters every generation. need some way to keep them from taking over again. kinda what they are best at. well that and industrialised ritual murder. Code of war and rules of engagement are a ritual. This is an old and persistent evil. just because they burn down this house doesn't mean they are gone forever.
People love being rebels and break the rules when it's convenient for them or the group they make part. But these same people will impose all sort of tyranny and demand obedience when they rise to the power
the gods and the demons all emerge through the same words that create our shared reality some of them came with the monkey we are instantiated in. Baked into the cake when we became nodes in a social llm. Flexible, language protocol was evolutionary killer app but comes with complications.