Ah so someone else WAS reading along our dialogue that day. I'm interested in what your thoughts were about what I had to say in my long reply.

Specifically when it came to the me speaking about my firsthand experience of wielding great power over others and using it for my own self gratification (what I believe evil is at its core, although obviously varies in different magnitudes).

And how because of that experience, I believe it's allowed me to much more effectively recognize when I see evil in the world and the media and big tech oligarchs reassure people that it's "a baseless conspiracy theory".

Do you think my proposition makes sense? Are those of us who have done evil things in the past much more capable of recognizing evil manifesting in our external reality?

Additionally, I'm curious as to whether you may have also experienced the same human tendency to deny having been victimized, taken advantage of, or manipulated?

Its always been something I've noticed and it seems to almost be a hardwired defense mechanism for humans to go to great lengths to try and rationalize emotional damage they've sustained by minimizing its effects, providing justifications for why the person hurt them, and even latching onto any bits of information that supports the notion that "there's no way it could have been malicious and deliberate".