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February 18th, 2021 
Awake Goy scpat says:
Ready for my deep philosophical and psychological take?
This gets into a deep philosophical question of human nature and life itself. Essentially, why do people do evil things? But first, I am curious as to “how” this could be possible.
If we were to take into consideration the infinite possible unique variations and combinations of the human biology and how many variations of personality exist, the ability for a human to be evil and to commit evil acts without conscious are within the range of these possible human traits. Just like there can be very good and genuine people, there is also the possibility of evil humans.
As for “why”, I think it is best to look at human nature generally. It is fundamental to human nature to constantly attempt to control things to some extent.
One of the most obvious ways to see this is to simply observe your own mind. Try to silence your mind by remaining the silent observer of your thoughts without pushing them away or giving them attention. You might notice that this is very difficult to do and that you cannot do this for very long without trying to force or will your mind to become silent and peaceful. That is because we associate our thoughts with our ego identity we have created. This action of the ego which tries to attain silence by imposing its will on the uncontrollable thoughts is the same action of the egos of evil people that try to impose their will on other uncontrollable phenomena, namely human life and existence. Association with the ego causes a feeling of separateness with other things that are outside the ego which causes a feeling of suffering, and therefore these are threats to defend against.
Just like most people associate their thoughts with their ego identity and want to scrub away uncomfortable thoughts so as to satisfy the ego and be in a more peaceful and blissful state, the ego of evil people want to push life around and scrub the earth clean of the things that bother them, namely other humans.
They want this “perfect” clean earth so that finally their ego can be satisfied with the feeling of being able to control the transience of life, permanently. But that will never happen. If evil humans do ever scrub the earth clean of those other icky humans, then the ego will move on to the next thing, wanting to keep satisfying its urges. It is a cycle that never ends for anyone, unless we are able to detach our identities from our thoughts so we can finally rest. This never ending wheel of thought and egoic action and suffering is fundamental to Buddhism and spirituality which has been studied and practiced for thousands of years.
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