I think there’s a good mix of both sides of that coin - plenty that a genuinely crazy and believe as you’ve stated, but another plenty that are just amoral and/or evil who just used the “mission from God” bullshit as a cover.
And if we were just talking about the general population at large, I would 100% agree, but I think the “bona fide diagnosable sociopathies and psychopathologies” are significantly overrepresented in people who obtain positions of power - especially the ones that end up in the news for stuff like this.
I think there’s a good mix of both sides of that coin - plenty that a genuinely crazy and believe as you’ve stated, but another plenty that are just amoral and/or evil who just used the “mission from God” bullshit as a cover.
Yes there exist bona fide diagnosable sociopathies and psychopathologies that can lead to “amorality”. But they’re pretty rare.
Much much more common is the insular thinking of an in-group in an information bubble. Especially, again, when that group values faith above reason
And if we were just talking about the general population at large, I would 100% agree, but I think the “bona fide diagnosable sociopathies and psychopathologies” are significantly overrepresented in people who obtain positions of power - especially the ones that end up in the news for stuff like this.