WHY Are They So Evil?

[THUNDER HANDS]

This is the question I just can't answer.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, ect.

They're all rich. They're all powerful. They all have everything they could ever want in life.

Why are they so evil?

WHY do they just keep wanting to systematically destroy everything?

Isn't money enough for them?

Isn't power enough for them?

WHY do they WANT to ruin people's lives?

Is it just something that one isn't going to understand unless they become super wealthy and super powerful themself?

I don't get it.

[leftyandproud]

1. They think the EXACT SAME THING..

about our leaders.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. They're sociopaths

or people who have figured out that hanging with the sociopaths is the way to wealth and power.

If wealth and power are your true religion, then "too much is not enough."

You could ask the same question about any dictator or predatory business mogul.

[gatorboy]

3. Better question...

...Why do people follow such an obviously evil group so blinbly?

I remember arguing with a guy about Bush's school incident during 9/11. He's reasoning for Bush's behavior was he didn't want to scare the kids. He. Didn't. Want. To Scare. The Kids. So the world's going to hell in a handbasket and Bush is worried about hurting some children's feelings???
Actually, when he said that, all I could think of was Bush doing a George Costanza impression by knocking kids and little old ladies over like there was a fire :D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. My mother the former kindergarten teacher

poo-poohed that excuse. She says he could have just told the children that something important had come up and he had to take care of it.

[Lautremont]

5. It's a magical evil potion

of greed, ideology and obligation to the greedy ideologues who put them in power.

[tom_paine]

6. Why was Hitler evil?

There is no answer tothis question.

Evil must be RESISTED, that's all you have to know about Imperial Family and their Monstrous Emissaries.

[sui generis]

7. you have to go a little Taoist on this one

They Just Are (evil). It's up to the rest of us to recognize it and fight it as if our lives depend on it, because they do.

[DoktorGreg]

8. And Addam ateth the fruiteth

and God bespoke of him, Why haveeth you ateeth the fruiteth of life?

And he sayeth, its not my fault, she me me do it, pointing to Eve.

And God bespoke of Eve, why did you make Addam eat the fruiteth of life?

And She sayeth, its not my fault the snake tricked me!

And God bespoke to the snake, why did you trick her?

And the snaketh says, Its not my fault you made me this way!

[kayell]

9. They are trying to scientifically determine if

absolute power really does corrupt absolutely.

[sui generis]

13. it doesn't really -

absolute power just attracts people who are absolutely corruptible

[kayell]

15. Well, when you consider the intelligence of the people involved in

the study, it isn't surprising that they haven't thought out their hypothesis very well.

[msmcghee]

10. Damned good question . .

Throughout history the Genghis Khans have always known that there are two ways to gain immense wealth and power.

Dominate foreign countries and peoples and take their resources for your own use. That's imperialism.

The other way is to dominate your own nation and people and take their resources for your own use.

Political systems will always be susceptible to the forces of natural selection and like any animal - those who dominate in both areas will eventually gain control.

Today we call those people neo-cons.

[stavka]

11. Hannah Arendt said it best, "A complete lack of empathy"

I think in "The Banality of Evil"

[Generator]

22. A complete lack of empathy-perfect.

Nothing is real but their ideology.

You have to see that it's real people that are before you that you are sending to die and see them akin to yourself. To have remorse. To have guilt, to have second thoughts, to think. To want to do better. To feel shame. To appologize. To be able to change and evolve.

None of which any of them seem remotely capable.

[demigoddess]

12. They do not know they are evil,

they unquestioningly believe they are right and must correct everyone else. People like this when you get into an argument with them can only see their side and will not hear yours. We used to say that they were "convinced". Not deep thinkers either, never to question themselves. Lack of brains. example, bush, reagan

[undergroundpanther]

14. Personality disorder

The sooner people can understand narcissists, authoritarians,fanatics,greed overweening ambition,manipulative con men, dominator's who do all the kinds of compulsive behavior traits that make a person into an untrustworthy a bully are-mentally sick,flawed personalities,morally bankrupted,unsafe, irrational insane individuals the better off the rest of us who exist without the compulsion to make everyone obey,who don't want to control the world will be.Because we will learn not to trust in bullies posing as strong men with moral character who want to discipline us like a mean abusive father figure.
With sociopaths in control no one grows up.

[sui generis]

16. the bad thing about them

is that once they're in the sandbox, you're still stuck with a crazy person in your sandbox making things bad for everyone. They are doing what works for them -- if the technique DIDN'T work, they would not use it. Personally, I am in favor of a "time in" (as opposed to time-out): speaking from experience, when the crazy bully invades your sandbox, put down your toys for moment, fill your bucket with sand, clobber the sonuvabitch over the head with it and chase him back out. That technique works too.

[Cat Atomic]

17. Orwell said the people at the top are the most brainwashed of all.

Well, it was actually a character 1984 talking about Oceania's oppressive culture, but it seems appropriate here as well.

I think many of these people are intensely dogmatic and ideological. They don't see the actual, concrete, real life consequences of the policies they promote. They certainly never FEEL those consequences.

To them, it's all academic.

[sam sarrha]

18. they are obsessive compulsive.. mentally ill,

[sam sarrha]

19. they are obsessive compulsive.. mentally ill,

[smirkymonkey]

20. They are filled with self-hatred

(which they disown) and project it on to the world around them. People who are truly strong, secure and confident have no need to dominate those around them.

All bullies are weak, insecure people and need to oppress others to feel strong.

[killbotfactory]

21. They think they are doing God's will

That allows them to justify anything under "the ends justify the means" theory.