Are We Getting Worse As Humans?

[Ninurta]

Years ago, during a discussion of why people do evil things, my police instructor made the observation that "there are just some people in this world born junkyard dog mean. there's no reason for it, no parent that made them wear red underwear as a child or anything like that, they are just plain evil". I've used that as a yardstick since then, and found it to hold up over time.

Some people are just a waste of skin when it comes to the rest of the human race.

When "fighting evil", there is no fair or not fair. there is only win or lose, and if you lose, then so does the rest of humanity, so it's a high stakes game. There are people in this world willing to sacrifice themselves, to become the monster that is the only way to defeat the other monsters, so that the innocent don't have to. I cannot say if that is "selfless", or just their own bit of evil rearing it's ugly head, but either way it's the only thing that keeps civilization from descending into anarchy.

So you don't have to.

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