I finally fully get this bit from Macbeth ~25 years after first studying it in high school. I now understand evil.
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Clumsy attempt: You can consciously choose to become evil. There's an actual recipe for it. I have figured the recipe out.
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If you've read Harry Potter, the horcrux concept is more than a MacGuffin. It's a pretty accurate figurative model of recipe.
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Harry Potter? You must be kidding. Only Tolkien is worse. No, Star Trek.
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alt egs: child soldiers in Africa forced to kill parents while drugged. Tibetans forced to rape parents by Chinese army.
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many such examples, and many somewhat cleaned up fictional depictions. Recipe exists in less intense forms, can be self-admin

