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Welcome to the basis of conservative political philosophy.
The psychopaths aren’t going away.
From that fact, all the rest about fearing big government, people having weapons, free markets, it all comes from that one initial postulate.
Well, the other postulate is: “knowledge is always incomplete”
The problem with the first postulate is it’s easy to ignore if one has been insulated from the psychopaths. Safety permits a blind spot with regard to the existence of evil in the world.
The opposite postulate, that perhaps psychopathy is an aberration which can be eradicated with the right circumstances, is basically the basis of progressive political philosophy.
Quite interesting.