Being a trusting, honorable person, and watching everyone you trusted turn out to be dishonest and disloyal.
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Definitely 100% the feeling that you're constantly being taken advantage of.
1 week ago | 60
Trauma that causes lack of empathy in the brain is a huge part of it. Personality disorders etc
1 week ago | 58
It's a loss of stability. I know because when I was growing up in an abusive household I was a horrible person. Poverty turns people into horrible people. Religion turns people into horrible people. When you lose your center and autonomy you lose your moral center. It's literally a perspective thing.
1 week ago | 18
It's core trauma. Changes a person's whole brain chemistry. A lack of empathy and emotions for others is the core of all barbaric crimes.
1 week ago | 12
It’s a defense mechanism that slowly turns into a masterpiece getting polished day by day
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I have a shirt that says "I never dreamed I'd grow up to be an asshole out here I am killin it" it's so damn true
1 week ago | 13
I think there're two main reasons: Money and power, even the sweetest person ends up being horrible when they get the slightest bit of power or wealth. And trauma/negative experiences. If someone has been treated horribly their whole life, gets treated like their invisible or worthless or get taken advantage of and hurt constantly - and especially if someone has been through something extremely traumatic (even if it's lots of small really upsetting things in a short space of time) - that can really mess someone up.
1 week ago | 2
I don’t think it is power or fear, but a complex engagement with betrayal. From my perspective, I see this major shift in disposition as akin to a veil being lifted, decomposing the illusions tied to the conditions of being a “good person”.
1 week ago | 0
Opportunity. Very few people have the true depth of character to resist corruption when the opportunity for impunity presents itself. Most people have that certain action that they don't take because they acknowledge the consequences. Most people are smart enough to moderate their behavior so as not to get in major trouble but that doesn't change the desire that exists. Thus the moment the opportunity to release the evil in our hearts with little to no consequence appears, people will take it.
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Depends on the circumstances. I have a friend who served in the GWOT as a Ranger and later SF. The sh!t he had to do to survive and make it home definitely changed him.
1 week ago | 1
Life sometimes has to unravel our inner darkness to show us all of what we truly are: imperfect mortal humans.. know thyself 🤘
1 week ago | 1
Sometimes it’s just a head injury. Most of the time it’s bad parenting mixed with other external factors and a little genetics. Or so I heard from a documentary on “What makes a serial killer?” Choices must be made, but if we aren’t given the means and tools to make the right ones we probably won’t.
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To be honest for many I think it’s already there and traumatic experiences just exacerbate it. This is why you can have people who experience horrendous things but remain ‘good’ and other people who are ‘bad’ either with no real explanation or with relatively minor trauma. They are naturally more impulsive, more selfish, more narcissistic, more anti-social than usual and trauma just adds fuel to the fire.
1 week ago | 0
Reminds of a video I watched about Lucifer Effect e.g. Walter White and others
1 week ago | 0
I think it's either they were never good to begin with -they were never tested. Or they become the monster required to preserve the innocence of others.
1 week ago | 0
When the desire to do something overpowers the fear of the consequences.
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Aperture
What turns good people into monsters? Is it power, fear, betrayal, or something much deeper?
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