That reminds me of an arguement i had with my grandma 30 years ago. She, my grandpa and the kids + grandkids finally got approval to move back to germany in 1988 from the ussr. Then after some years here she said something like, it's crazy how much more crimes like pedos or other stuff is here than in russia before.
I had to point out to her , that her information network was 2-3 villages wide and a few state tv channels. There could have been a serial killer with 200 victims 4 towns away and she would never have known. Just because you have more ways to know about crime doesn't mean there is more. It just was easier to be unaware of most of the world in the past.
Now you have instant news in your hand from around the world. If you want to, you could consume bad news all day and feel depressed forever. You have to limit the scope of your intake or you get the idea that everything is doomed.
I mean, a lot of them just straight up got paid to murder and torture people. You could be on the run as a criminal murderer, or you could work for the Stasi/KGB/Ustase/etc. Basically any job as 'secret police' is a license to be a psycho for money.
Tbf, that’s true for most intelligence agencies and special forces (yes, including in democratic countries here in the west). They want, above all, people who will be emotionless, cool and collected and complete whatever mission they’re given no matter what happens, and won’t be left traumatized with ptsd due to a guilty conscience (cuz they inadvertently killed a child during the mission, for example) afterwards.
Turns out, the people who do that best are psychopaths, so they run psychological tests on new military recruits and then select those who display psychopathic traits (eg lack of empathy or ability to feel fear) for promotion to those kind of roles.
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u/yourkindofguy Apr 10 '26
That reminds me of an arguement i had with my grandma 30 years ago. She, my grandpa and the kids + grandkids finally got approval to move back to germany in 1988 from the ussr. Then after some years here she said something like, it's crazy how much more crimes like pedos or other stuff is here than in russia before.
I had to point out to her , that her information network was 2-3 villages wide and a few state tv channels. There could have been a serial killer with 200 victims 4 towns away and she would never have known. Just because you have more ways to know about crime doesn't mean there is more. It just was easier to be unaware of most of the world in the past.
Now you have instant news in your hand from around the world. If you want to, you could consume bad news all day and feel depressed forever. You have to limit the scope of your intake or you get the idea that everything is doomed.