I was not uncomfortable until you mentioned that what I said was an uncomfortable truth bomb :) I take that back, I am still not uncomfortable. I have not read the Talmud myself but have had many awesome Jewish friends. As a matter of fact it was Jews that gave me career opportunities that no one else did.
I doubt Hotez, Fauci, Trudeau (although I think maybe he's just a mentally-stunted insipid thespian wannabe), et al achieved their positions by chance. And I am not convinced that every bad actor is a psychopath in the Hare sense, I think many people can learn the part with sufficient experience--and especially with enough power behind them. I've met former abortionists who were sincere in their belief that they were doing a good deed in their former lives, then changed their minds to think the opposite. Why? And clearly people move the other direction on that subject in greater numbers without a thought. Mass formation? Influence? I can't tell why Hotez and Collins and Gates and Schwab and all the others do what they do, but at least some of it reeks of low empathy, some of it is CYA/politics, and who knows what else. Absolute power corrupts absolutely I'm told.
My eldest sons said I was(am) terrifying. I never saw that in myself, but they did. I'm glad no one ever gave me more power than I could handle. Perhaps the Faucis of the world should have arrived at a similar self assessment early in their careers. Many people would still be alive that are now dead.
I was not uncomfortable until you mentioned that what I said was an uncomfortable truth bomb :) I take that back, I am still not uncomfortable. I have not read the Talmud myself but have had many awesome Jewish friends. As a matter of fact it was Jews that gave me career opportunities that no one else did.
I doubt Hotez, Fauci, Trudeau (although I think maybe he's just a mentally-stunted insipid thespian wannabe), et al achieved their positions by chance. And I am not convinced that every bad actor is a psychopath in the Hare sense, I think many people can learn the part with sufficient experience--and especially with enough power behind them. I've met former abortionists who were sincere in their belief that they were doing a good deed in their former lives, then changed their minds to think the opposite. Why? And clearly people move the other direction on that subject in greater numbers without a thought. Mass formation? Influence? I can't tell why Hotez and Collins and Gates and Schwab and all the others do what they do, but at least some of it reeks of low empathy, some of it is CYA/politics, and who knows what else. Absolute power corrupts absolutely I'm told.
My eldest sons said I was(am) terrifying. I never saw that in myself, but they did. I'm glad no one ever gave me more power than I could handle. Perhaps the Faucis of the world should have arrived at a similar self assessment early in their careers. Many people would still be alive that are now dead.