There are a lot of people who think because they know someone who works in govt that the institution is somehow more sane or human. I think many of those same people also lack awareness of their own capacity for evil, & as a result they do not see it in others (& may even feel uncomfortable around good & honest people who don't share their blindness). They are the type on the news after some tragedy commenting about how the serial killer next door was "such a nice man." With respect to government they are likely to be surprised that it has enslaved or totally destroyed their life, & they will most likely have helped make it happen. Everyone has a dark side. Evil is always much closer to home than most want to believe.
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They're under a spell.
The dysfunction that's coming now will either wake them up or put them into a deeper trance.
We don't need to fight them. They are not evil people.
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What is an evil person?
I think evil is basically just a result of being disconnected from reality. There is a lot of evil in the world today.
I don't think evil people exist.
I think a lot of people have become trapped in a fear based mindset of controlling others & bring controlled by others. It's not who they are or why they're here but a pattern they're stuck in.
I mostly agree, but I think there are some who are so broken & deluded & stuck in destructive patterns that they can't or won't ever change.
Perhaps. I think the incentives of the state (as a coercive organization) tend to corrupt genuinely well-meaning people and place them in situations where it is easier to support the exercise of power than to object