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Just about everything you described (aside from "bureaucracy" which is a net neutral) could be considered Punishment, or punitive behavior. They're not doing Ev
by moate 5y ago
Just about everything you described (aside from "bureaucracy" which is a net neutral) could be considered Punishment, or punitive behavior. They're not doing Evil with the goal being harm, but some version of "this will fix things/this will get them to stop being bad".
You killed my dog, I'm going to murder everyone in your criminal empire.
You're leaving me, so I'm taking the house.
You're bad, so I'll be bad.
There are very few people who feel they're morally evil (and ironically, those who do are rarely as bad as they think). I think people do bad things, and typically they do it because they feel they have to be the one to do this bad thing in service of a greater goal that they view as good.