"But what's their motive?"
Apply this to any issue you like. I’m thinking of the government hurricane response, but this could apply to countless acts of neglect or conscious aggression against the American people.
"But what's their motive?", some people ask. They ask this when someone like me points out that wicked people with wicked souls are doing wicked things brazenly.
The questioner wants anything, anything at all, that will let him avoid the truth. He wants an excuse for evil so badly that he will help cover evil. That’s what he’s doing. He’s so scared of facing the truth that he will help the evil people to hurt him personally, and by extension, those around him.
Their motivation is hurting people. Causing suffering. Quite literally, they want to see their enemies driven before them and hear the lamentations of their women.
Because psychopathy is real. Malignant narcissism is real.
Motive questioner: You know this. You're able to accept it when you watch true crime about serial killers.
You know this. You're able to accept that some people sexually get off on it, because you acknowledge that BDSM exists.
You know this.
You know that there are people out there who hurt others as an end in itself. You know that some people enjoy seeing pain in other people.
And you know that I know you know.
You want psychopathy to exist only in your favorite TV or podcast docos.
Like a child, you want to believe that other people are basically good, like you. You pretend that psychopathic people have the same rational motivations you do.
And this is why I will not sit next to you any longer, why I won’t come over to your house, why I won’t confide in you. Because you are dangerous, even though you don’t know it. You’re literally begging psychopaths to harm you, and I’m going to step out of the way and let you chart your own course. You will absolutely get what you’re asking for, but I will not. I will not die with you.
Grow all the way up now. There's no more time for this nonsense.
Are you still with me? Did you personalize this? Did it feel like it was targeted to you?
If it did, is it true? Did I describe you? In some cases, I did, didn’t I?
I was you. This person I’m castigating was also me. I was the psychopath-excuser. I covered over my mother’s evil and abuse for four decades. I grasped for any excuse not to face the truth about my own mother.
I don’t expect anything of you that I don’t expect of myself. If this is you, you’re not a bad person, but you are an extremely misguided and dangerous person.
But you can awaken and change. Yes, I expect it of you, and nothing less is sufficient.