@kotovalexarian@liberdon.com @freemo I think a better way to put it would be that everyone has the potential to be evil(and be good), being a worker or citizens doesn't rip yourself this potential, as this is part of human nature. The biggest difference is that those who possess a great amount of power is more likely to turn this potential to be evil into a reality and cause catastrophic damages to people around him, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. "
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No I'm not talking about the potential for evil, but actual evil. Middle class people try to steal all the time, for example, they just get away with it far less often than a rich person.
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@freemo @kotovalexarian@liberdon.com Should I take the word "Steal" literally? Or do you mean the evasion of taxes? Would you elaborate on that one?
We can apply it however we want really. To pick something arbitrary, intellectual property. Rich people all the time try to steal it from poorer people and block them in court. Then again there are countless people who have used unlicensed and cracked software too, probably way more than the number of rich people stealing.
No matter what measure you pick really youll find whatever the evil thing is the middle class are trying to do said evil thing just as much as rich people, they just arent as successful at it is all.
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@freemo @kotovalexarian@liberdon.com Honestly I would rank these activities as major incarnations of evil, I think harming people's economic interest are quite minor crimes as compared with deliberately destroying people's lives, coercing them to do things against their own will, sending then to concentration camps, depriving people of their rights in the name of a state or a particular ideology, starving them to death in a man-made famine. So far as a can see, these are better examples of evil and can only be done through the powers concentrated in the hand of few.
@freemo @kotovalexarian@liberdon.com And I think there is a danger of putting too many things under the category of evil because we do need to maintain the ability to distinguish minor crimes and serious evil activities, and we should prevent the word "evil" from becoming a slur thrown against each other, as it is also in the case of words such as "Fascism", "Far right", "Bigot", etc.