Hypothesis: A significant % of people are simply addicted to thought-police work. It's like bureaucrat sadism a la Umbridge v. Harry Potter
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I'd suspect only few are truly sadistic. Most thought police seem like true believers. The clueless underbelly.
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they are still sadists imo though. They are just too self-unaware to recognize their source of pleasure as schadenfreude.
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...while denying we have a stake in preserving it in unsolved state because it's our cultural life to be perennially "solving"
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Generalized: Significant % of people are latent sadists, jumping out when given moral cover. Giving example would invoke Goodwin's law.
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