12/ By this theory, most "good" people are actual bad: they define "evil" to dehumanize, to justify causing pain for pleasure
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23/ Which means the feel-good theory of civilization I opened with is a theory of, by, for freaks who can't find pleasure in others' pain
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24/ Which brings us to the dark question: if finding pleasure in others' pain is central to psyche of "normal" humans, what is civilization?
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I doubt anyone can’t take pleasure in it. Won’t. Weird emergent moralities, not ineluctable qualities
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I remember the first time people tried to explain the emotion of schadenfreude to me, I couldn't believe it was a thing.
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That it was a UNIVERSAL thing struck me as even more implausible.
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