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In reply to the discussion: Ed Norton 🧵: I'm no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & he taught [View all]PatSeg
(46,773 posts)I held a Mr. Rogers attitude of "good people sometimes do bad things", making allowances for people who are insane and can't help themselves. Now I see that there are relatively ordinary, sane people who like you say, really are "rotten to the very core of their being". What is even more disturbing is there are so many of them. We work with them, live next door to them, are even related to them. It is like we are sharing our world with another species, creatures who can act like us, but on close examination really lack any humanity.
Looking back on history, I can see they've always been with us, purveyors of cruelty and destruction in the name of progress, but lacking any compassion or basic humanity. It is because of people like this that civilized people had to make laws, but when they end up in charge, it all goes to hell.