And what is it that rotted Hegseth’s mind, so that from an early age he failed to learn critical thinking, and instead learned to “go with what feels good”, to accept moral decisions being made by Someone With Greater Authority, to have firm beliefs based on no fucking evidence?
Hegseth was not “born evil” – he didn’t start murdering his preschool classmates. He learned to stop thinking, to just take orders, to abdicate responsibility … which are what makes him evil.
I don’t think that applies here. Hegseth is straight up evil.
Yes but he can/is using religion to get what could otherwise be good people to do evil things.
I say could be otherwise good because once you’re doing evil…well, evil is as evil does.
Seems like an oversimplification to me. This is applicable to any ideology - not just religion.
And what is it that rotted Hegseth’s mind, so that from an early age he failed to learn critical thinking, and instead learned to “go with what feels good”, to accept moral decisions being made by Someone With Greater Authority, to have firm beliefs based on no fucking evidence?
Hegseth was not “born evil” – he didn’t start murdering his preschool classmates. He learned to stop thinking, to just take orders, to abdicate responsibility … which are what makes him evil.
There is some truth to this. As in religious extremism does convince good people to turn bad. But good people do evil things all the time.