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Hard disagree. What makes them truly "evil" is when they cross over to being so stubborn as to be uneducatable. Before then, they're just "bad".
I’m talking about education from the beginning, at an early age. Babies aren’t born evil, it is learned. I don’t disagree with you about stubbornness and hate. It’s dangerous and dehumanizing to think of them as just evil. They are victims of abuse, indoctrination and material conditions. I’m not excusing the “evil” actions, just hoping people understand they are victims of circumstances. That’s why they don’t see themselves as racist. In their world/view they are not. We have to continue to educate them. When that fails, violence becomes the only option. You can’t compromise with fascism.
Again, I have to disagree. Babies are born narcissistic - nearly evil, and they need to be raised by parents out of becoming evil. Evil is humanity's natural trajectory, through which it will naturally sail if not impeded.
I did not get ruthlessly abused by an entire species of people who only needed "education" to stop them from abusing me - I got ruthlessly abused as a child by people who were born ruthless and were raised by monsters who weaponized their children.
On the contrary, it's humanizing them think of them as evil; that's what humanity is. And you all consider me a "freak" because I had my bad parts tortured out of me. That's why you abuse me to this day - because I refuse to act as badly as you all do.
Psychologist disagree with this notion. Sorry if you were abused, it’s not your fault.
That's doesn't disprove anything I've said - it only states it in a way that you've confused for disproval. It only lies about people universally restraining violent impulses. Sure, they restrain them toward either their own social groups or other social groups more powerful than their own, but they let fly at anyone they think they can get away with. That's society in a nutshell: The only thing stopping mass murder is the doubt they can get away with it. Once doubt is removed, so are all inhibitions - which will always be the case for the "other" against whom all human beings agree to act.
No one believes this. Certainly not enough to actually do anything about it. No one was arsed enough to actually stop the abuse, to actually kill my abusers, so I have no reason to believe that anyone actually disagrees with my abuse. I'll believe people are against abuse when they start stacking the bodies of abusers like cordwood.