Paul Conti

So yes, in that sense, but, and I think this is the part that I think is so important that I think there is a disjunction, right?

There's an asymptotic shift, right?

From one thing to another, because it is very- Now you're speaking my language.

Yeah.

It's a way to convey something that's entirely different.

Because if I start thinking, I'm not going to try and make things better.

I'd like instead to harm you.

That's qualitatively different.

Now a person is cultivating evil, right?

They're saying, hey, there can be seeds of evil in all of us.

Let me take that seed out, dust it off, plant it, nurture it, right?

And then grow that seed of evil, which will affect all other parts of the person's life, right?

They won't behave the same towards others in their life.

They'll become different.

as they nurture fantasies of evil, as they begin to create inside of themselves the motivation and the will to enact evil.

The Hitler analogy would say, you take someone who had a bad childhood, who was not loved, who was taught and told that he was less than.

We know that happens.

That's why child abuse is so evil.

It's telling children

the worst possible wrong lessons, right?