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2026-04-17 19:15 UTC
@NatureMC “The cruelty is the point.”
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online 2026-04-18 11:36
@raganwald It's hard to read but brings it to the point, thanks for the link! It's pure sadism. As the author writes, being bad/cruel is not uncommon in humans. But as social animals, we as society have the means to regulate, if we want to live with the outbreak of sadism, psychopath's crimes etc. We have laws, regulations. And this is what happens in open fascism, imperialism, or colonialism: The evil ones build a system where everything is allowed, where they can forget all humanism and human