This is a good point. Ninja.
The analysis is so complex, that more detail to point it would help. In nearly every case of violence, homicide, there is a component of regret, or sociopathy. You either know you are harming a person, or you dont. If you act against your instincs (assuming in the questioned individual
a) knows they are hurting a person
b) cares
c) senses a moral dilemma
= I want to do A (that thing which harms another), but I need/am compulsively bound to, chose to pursue B, which is causing A.
What is B?
Is it choice, compulsion, need, habit that overides the value of avoiding A?
The details will help.
This actually is a good study of EVIL (its either sociopathy, or B)
muhahahaha
In my experience the steps involve dehumanization of the target in A – “they are just dirty so and so’s – they’re not real people” – out group members not worthy of in group rights.
The next step is a rationalization of B.
We must cleanse the people of (A) to achieve our divine place in history. (B)
then follows government mandated progroms to achieve these “lofty goals”
Read up on manifest destiny, and then compare to faschism in the 20th century.
Then just for a chill, compare to statements of JFK, before he was assasinated.