While reading this I found myself to be envious of the leg up some people can get owing to the circumstances of their birth. However, I was also disgusted by th

While reading this I found myself to be envious of the leg up some people can get owing to the circumstances of their birth. However, I was also disgusted by the use of term "nepo baby" to condemn this entire class of people. It seems to me the parents were basically good people who just couldn't see their son's psychopathy for what it was. After all parents' inability to view their children without bias is a trope that has been repeated throughout history. That said, the philosophy of - as the article put it - the ends justify the means can only inevitably lead to these outcomes. Whether free will is an illusion or not, it is pure hubris to think that our knowledge alone can guide us to absolute good for the greatest number of people. We simply cannot process the entire system, and morality is a helpful heuristic here. The specifics of moral code should always be up for discussion, but to use some outdated part of the code to dismiss the whole is just rash.