Are there evil people or only evil acts? If the former category exists, what defines an evil person if one rejects a religious conception? The most evil people I have met in this life are those individuals born with significant mental ability [e.g. genetic moral luck] in
2] supportive families[environmental moral luck] who are hard wired to ignore social/moral norms unless compliance with them is in their self interest. They know what they are and are indifferent to the damage they cause others as they pursue their particular goals. These people
3] lack a basic attribute of humanity; the capacity for empathy. While psychiatry shuns conceptions of good and evil, it has a diagnostic category that covers this type of person: moral psychopaths who "suffer" from anti-social personality disorder. I put suffer in quotes because
4] these individuals do not experience any distress when they harm others. While the average layperson might view this term as only applying to criminals who repeatedly commit crimes, the term applies to many successful members of society who are never charged with any crime
5] because they don't need to violate the law to promote their self interest. Trump is a classic example of an evil person despite his mediocre intelligence. He terrifies us as he seems less than fully human because of his inability to care about the interests of others. Like all
classic psychopaths, he never accepts any responsibility for either his bad acts or culpable failures to act which have caused the unnecessary death of so many people. In my view, Trump is the personification of human evil. If you agree with this account, please retweet it.
