Even when I can see the ROI (I’m sure the money the Israeli government intends to leech from US taxpayers far outstrips the amount they’ll spend to support politicians who can be counted on to vote in favor of it), I just can’t understand the amorality of it all.
Are they all psychopaths? That’s the conclusion I keep coming back to - that they’re just psychologically defective, such that they just don’t have any empathy or restraint or sense of shame - that they’re as morally void as serial killers, and just exercise their evil in a somewhat different way.
No other explanation makes any sense. Anyone with even the tiniest shred of common decency would be unlikely to choose to do the things they do, and unable to live with themselves if they did, so it must be the case that they don’t even have a shred of decency - that they’re literal psychopaths.
I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be that twisted and broken.
The only way I can square it is to remind myself that the reason they were able to even accumulate that kind of wealth in the first place is that they’re already morally bankrupt. I shouldn’t expect them to change and stop fucking other people over when it’s fucking people over that got them there. They’re just more able to seal themselves off from the consequences of their actions when their estates get bigger and the neighborhood walls taller, and the rest of humanity fades away from their daily existence like the white noise on an antenna TV.
I still don’t even begin to understand how any human being could be so vile and repugnant, but yes - it’s almost certainly the case that they got where they are through a lifetime of being vile and repugnant, so their current loathsomeness is just a continuation of a lifelong pattern.
And by the bye, that was notably well written. Kudos.
Even when I can see the ROI (I’m sure the money the Israeli government intends to leech from US taxpayers far outstrips the amount they’ll spend to support politicians who can be counted on to vote in favor of it), I just can’t understand the amorality of it all.
Are they all psychopaths? That’s the conclusion I keep coming back to - that they’re just psychologically defective, such that they just don’t have any empathy or restraint or sense of shame - that they’re as morally void as serial killers, and just exercise their evil in a somewhat different way.
No other explanation makes any sense. Anyone with even the tiniest shred of common decency would be unlikely to choose to do the things they do, and unable to live with themselves if they did, so it must be the case that they don’t even have a shred of decency - that they’re literal psychopaths.
I can’t even imagine what it must be like to be that twisted and broken.
The only way I can square it is to remind myself that the reason they were able to even accumulate that kind of wealth in the first place is that they’re already morally bankrupt. I shouldn’t expect them to change and stop fucking other people over when it’s fucking people over that got them there. They’re just more able to seal themselves off from the consequences of their actions when their estates get bigger and the neighborhood walls taller, and the rest of humanity fades away from their daily existence like the white noise on an antenna TV.
Yes.
I still don’t even begin to understand how any human being could be so vile and repugnant, but yes - it’s almost certainly the case that they got where they are through a lifetime of being vile and repugnant, so their current loathsomeness is just a continuation of a lifelong pattern.
And by the bye, that was notably well written. Kudos.