Posted by alexandra_k on October 30, 2018, at 20:46:04
In reply to Re: The Witch King of Angmar, posted by alexandra_k on October 30, 2018, at 20:17:35
It's an ideal.
It's an ideal many people choose to adopt.
People choose to make such people their heroes and they choose to try and emulate them and their practices. People choose to commit atrocities and so on in order to try and be like them.
Maybe... Maybe that's the marketing.
Then we can see who chooses to act like that and intervene relatively early before they grow in power enough to cause more genuine harm.
Maybe it is people like these...
Maybe it is providing this ideal to New Zealanders in order to assess their genuine merit.
Maybe it is just a test of character.
Maybe it can be used for good. To get some people out.
I guess if psychopathy is marketed as the norm then you see who has enough... Whatever... To go against the norm.
Seeing people behave apprporiately when structures are in place so as to make it easy. Seeing people behave apprpriately when they are well slept and well fed. Doesn't really give you the measure of the person.
I guess we choose to believe...
What's teh alternative?
What if you thought that doing whatever some psychopath says is the thing to do because they are the ones with real power and they are the ones who are most rewarded in life... What if you thought that and so you did awful things... What if then... It turned out... That actually you were wrong. That basically... You just behaved awfully. Because you could. What then does that make you? And you can squirm and so on that you dind't think you had any choice or whatever...
And studies show that most people are like that. Sigh. That doesn't make it excusable. Certainly not aspirational.
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