Kenneth McKendrick

It's used by family members.

Siblings are really

excellent wielders of caustic terms and harmful terms and that kind of stuff.

And I get these like stories about how, you know, kids really stick it to their siblings and family members.

Like, yeah, you know, we've really developed a knack for hurting the ones we love.

And in part because we're aware of our own vulnerabilities.

We're aware of our fragility and we can make use of that.

And that's things like racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia.

Like all of these things, this is why it's so difficult because you can see the manipulation at work.

You can see, ah, they're triggering disgust here.

They're engaging in a ritual so it reduces my options to their response, right?

Like they're pushing me into a tunnel so the only thing I can be is angry.

And I can't say, wait a second, you're triggering my disgust mechanism because you're triggered, right?

Okay, so...

what do you mean by evil?

What do you mean by the term evil?

Like we're all have our wonderful moments where we are totally, utterly, unbelievably annoying, right?

Like do babies treat like everything as an object that they miss or something like that?

I doubt it.

I mean, the brain is so social, like so thoroughly social that, you know, again, we have others in mind and that persists.