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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

'Good' and 'evil' are religiously loaded terms, anyway. But definitely empathetic people exist who sincerely want to avoid causing harm to others, or alleviating harm they already have done to them. As the electric shock experiments in the 1960s showed, people can be manipulated into causing harm to others through immoral systems and authority, but their empathy still makes them resist doing it, becoming stressed, biting their nails, and in some cases refusing to do it if it goes too far for them.