• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    amoral and/or evil

    Yes there exist bona fide diagnosable sociopathies and psychopathologies that can lead to “amorality”. But they’re pretty rare.

    Much much more common is the insular thinking of an in-group in an information bubble. Especially, again, when that group values faith above reason

    • kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip
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      And if we were just talking about the general population at large, I would 100% agree, but I think the “bona fide diagnosable sociopathies and psychopathologies” are significantly overrepresented in people who obtain positions of power - especially the ones that end up in the news for stuff like this.