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Laura Knight-Jadczyk's avatar

Brilliantly explained! Political Ponerology is a dense text, and you have made it accessible to non-academics.

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Daniel D's avatar

Very insightful and engaging writing! I guess it's true what Kant said about the only absolutely good thing being a good will, since anything else could be used as a tool for harm by someone with a malicious will. And similarly, the only absolute evil is an evil will, especially as manifested in psychopathy. It's amazing how much pain and suffering that relatively small demographic of psychopaths creates for the rest of humanity. The ideologies and political movements the psychopaths use are incidental, though it does seem that some ideologies and movements are more easily manipulated by psychopathic actors than others.

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