Re: Worm, a parahumans web serial
I do agree with you that they are evil. That doesn't nessessarily mean they are doing this of their free will.
In the days of slavery, why do you think that most of society agreed with those policies? Humans are far too easily manipulated. If most other humans are continuing an action, the psychological reflex is to follow
them.
Milgram was attempting to ascertain how this worked. He determined that a person would injure another person if he was sufficiently threatened or manipulated into doing so. It's just a portion of human psychology.
Also note that if a person is set on a particular point of view, he or she wlil see his/her actions as good, not evil. Evil is a relative term, and has nothing to do with some cosmic force of good or evil in the universe. The concept is entirely determinate on the person's mind.
The author does not portray these characters as good people. The empire 88 are shown killing people, and another is sho wn kidnapping a child just to gain the probabilities of outcomes. They act in the way they do outwardly due to the fact that they believe in their actions. The author doesn't advocate these actions, and the main character often comments on how she dislikes the white supremacy aspect of them. The only ppeople in that environment she sides with are the 4 she initially met, and even that fades when they act in an immoral way.
Also I'm pretty sure that the main character is black, as well as Grue.
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