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Within the story, it's not glory or power either. Glory comes from defeating equals - but the point is to kill the defenseless. Power comes from victory, but th
by beat 10y ago
Within the story, it's not glory or power either. Glory comes from defeating equals - but the point is to kill the defenseless. Power comes from victory, but the victory is irrelevant.
Could you kill a child? Of course not. What kind of monster kills a helpless child? But if you can do it - you have become something more than merely human. Humans are confined by their morality. Supermen are not. And soldiers? Soldiers kill children all the time. That's why there's war.
- hilop 10y agoYou would do well to go meet some real human soldiers, not just read fantasy books.
- chillacy 10y agoOr something less than human, I'd argue. In the same vein, a cancerous skin cell becomes a "supercell" and gets to live an immortal life, no longer constrained to the cycle of death. I suspect that people don't like psychopaths for the same reason our bodies kill cancer cells: they aren't good for society. (some argue that in small numbers they can be, but you can't run a tribe of psychopaths). The specific mechanisms of people going against psychopaths include things like altruistic punishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_punishment