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A dark thought: Posit that some fraction of all people (of all backgrounds) are irreparably evil. Where can civilization best harness their skills to minimize t
by RhysU 6y ago
A dark thought: Posit that some fraction of all people (of all backgrounds) are irreparably evil. Where can civilization best harness their skills to minimize the harm to rest of humanity?
- adamsea 6y agoWhy even posit that to begin with, when we have plenty of science - psychology, sociology, behavioral economics, etc - that are intensely interested in human behavior? We have actual data and reasonably useful models to draw on. What you describe is the setting for a Young Adult fantasy series. Which is fine, and interesting for a while, but not a good way to think about how we would like our society to function. Go read Hannah Arendt's "On Violence", if you haven't. Or "Eichmann in Jerusalem." It's the banality of evil that's the really unsettling thing.