Frank Herbert was a brilliant observer.
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Most of that is very keenly true, though I don't know if the recognized by perpetrator part is something I'd agree with.
Unless you mean it in the same sense as everyone is already enlightened and just unaware, i.e. for most practical purposes not enlightened.
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ignore that answer, misread your response. but perpetrators so recognize what they are doing, but find it justified.
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Yes. The hiding of evidence is endemic, too, so I think there is some (deeply) repressed guilt where there isn't just predatory cunning.
I mean, psychopaths hide evidence, though not out of guilt. I don't think the same can be said for random fascists who are not literal demons.