We were talking about Hilbert’s issues versus Shaw’s disorder in terms of who was more trustworthy to do no harm. The generalizations I was making were necessarily small scale. On the other hand, the psychology of executioners and people who choose soldiering as a career - as opposed to regular people drafted or otherwise coerced or cajoled into the role - is actually pretty interesting because those careers tend to attract people to them who want to commit those otherwise transgressive acts, as a matter of fact. They’re not necessarily psychopaths. Some are justice killers or mission oriented killers who want to punish the people they deem sinners or unworthy in some way - that gives them satisfaction and fulfillment - and some are just garden variety sadists. Psychopathy is an extremely complex mental disorder, not… an emotional state. Psychopathy is the disorder, but not everyone who derives pleasure from hurting people is one.