Those of us who are real Republicans know that people are by nature bad. We're driven to selfish means of survival, excess and animus. It takes a very stable thoughtful mind to avoid these instinctual drives. Fear and lust will drive a man to do horrible things and he may come back down and look at the result of his amok time with disgust and despair, but it's pure humanity in its primal hysteric. Is there anything more human than revenge? Those of us at the top of the food chain are beholden to societal rules because if you're caught with your hand in the cookie jar, you get it cut off, but if you steal a billion, you are confined to your luxury mansion where you were hiding anyway. We are civilized as long as we are privileged.
The underprivileged need something else. By creating a cult of fear that pushes people to charity with rewards or punishment in an afterlife, we can get these hard-working hungry lemmings to help some of us live happier lives. There's not enough stuff to make all of us happy anyway so why should we all be miserable? If we can give them something to hope for in the next life, maybe their misery and suffering will have some internal meaning. We're creating heroes and keeping the peace.
We're all sociopathic by nature, but some of us hide it better than others. Empathy is like lust; it doesn't last long and it only distracts us from the important stuff.
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