Well said. I might add that there's something even worse than fooling yourself that you'd never be the bad guy. It's the self-indulgent justifications and downplaying of the consequences of your actions to keep yourself from learning anything from your errors.
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips
- Romans 3:10-13
Well said. I might add that there's something even worse than fooling yourself that you'd never be the bad guy. It's the self-indulgent justifications and downplaying of the consequences of your actions to keep yourself from learning anything from your errors.
https://lorendean.substack.com/p/the-future-is-local-the-terrible
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