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Elon Musk is EVIL. He is dumb, arrogant, a dick, and a bad parent, but a lot of people are those things. What sets him apart is he is EVIL. Evil has no place on MY planet. That's what you need to be telling yourself.
What does that even mean? Evil is a silly adjective tied to a bunch of mumbo jumbo religious rhetoric.
Use adult words: he's a narcissist and void of empathy. He is dangerous and a threat to America.
evil is putting your desires before other people's needs or wellbeing. it's an important distinction and needs to be used regardless of religious context.
No, the word your looking for that fits the definition given is 'selfishness'. Just about every living organism on the planet instinctually puts themselves and their own continued survival as #1. Do you think all animals and plants and micro bacteria and viruses evil because living things compete for resources instead of sharing while singing cum-bai-yah in perfect harmony?
It sucks that people care about themselves more than others but that's not evil its a natural aspect of being an individual organism trying to navigate a harsh sometimes cruel world. Adknowledging that aspect of living things without retrofitting it into some definition morality is important to understanding reality.
You might be able to argued a true narcicist psychopath who cares about nothing but themselves and couldn't care less if everyone else dies as long as their comfort is maintained is evil but that's a nuanced position that required more than 15 seconds to type.
Spend a few minutes thinking up a proper definition of evil or copy paste one from someone who has.
I don't think you read my comment carefully enough before you smugly assumed I never thought about this before. you're wrong. what i described is not what every living organism does, and even if it was, a vacuous appeal to nature wouldn't really affect my judgment over human behavior.
The concept of evil does not emanate solely from religion. While religious traditions often frame evil in relation to divine will, morality, or supernatural forces (e.g., Satan in Christianity), secular and philosophical perspectives also address evil independently of religious contexts. Secular moral frameworks define evil as extreme wrongdoing or harm, often tied to human actions or systemic issues, without invoking supernatural elements. Philosophers like Immanuel Kant have proposed purely secular theories of evil, focusing on moral failures rather than divine aspects. So in ithe euros it’s not dilly but religious, but is a useful multifaceted concept that’s widely understood .land thus useful for discussions (without having to resort to cause or impossible-to-diagnose from afar personality disorders
What sets him apart is he is EVIL.
He's an absolute piece of shit. But if you think he stands above Donald Rumsfeld or Steve Bannon or George Shultz or William J. Casey or Samuel Alito on the Evilness Spectrum, you're suffering from profound recency bias.
The history of evil shits running this country goes back a long, long way. Elon's just the latest to claim the mantel. And its safe to say he won't be the last.
What sets him apart is the recklessness and the fecklessness of his actions. He's jamming code updates into a 60 year old system without bothering to bug check them first. Very real possibility he bricks a significant portion of the Treasury software suite before he's done. Prior administrations had an eye towards continuation of careers and legacy of their terms. This administration is treating the term as a Smash-and-Grab, with an eye towards fully expropriating the functions of the federal government to the private sector.
He's a special category.
Lots of people are evil because they want to have more than anybody else.
Elon already has more than anybody else in the history of the planet, and he's getting more evil.
No, the more you have, the more incentive to be evil.
Also works with power to make decisions, obviously. Especially to make decisions for others.
That's where the "small government" thing comes from initially, but unfortunately it can't come some evolutionary way from benevolent oligarchs and politicians voted in. You have to defeat them both first, managing to avoid creating a new vertical power structure, and if successful, creating a clean environment, and then you can build something.
Now comes a question, though, why build something that has been tried and has devolved into what you have now, and will devolve again much faster, not in a century or so, but in a decade or less, because you can't make the environment clean in all dimensions.
He's exactly as evil as Henry Ford and for all the same reasons.
And it's important to recognize that his accumulated wealth is, ultimately, incredibly precarious. He's riding a bubble and a lot of his behavior is about getting out ahead of the big POP! he sees coming.
Well, if we're talking about "this country", he may be the last.
Every villian is lemons.
Every vegetable is lemon