• saimen@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    There are almost no people who see themselves as evil (except some really fucked up lunatics like serial killers). Everyone normally wants to be and do good. Where does all the evil then come from?

    Sometimes people do evil things because of ignorance. They just didn’t know/ thought of the consequences of their actions.

    Often people do evil things for their own or their close one’s advantage like corruption.

    But most of the time people do really evil things because of projection. The pressure from “outside” (mainly during childhood development) to be good can be so forcefully and rigorously that people can’t accept parts of their own self which they then project onto others. Thus invoking evil actions against these others to protect themselves from them, in extreme cases this can go until dehumanising others “allowing” all the great atrocities we know from human history.