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The more I learn, the more I realize that a lot of political leaders who do horrible do what they do for a reason, with some exceptions. This isn't an endorsement of their actions or their reasons, but Putin, Netanyahu, and (kinda) Biden/Obama/Bush all have reasons for what they do. The rare exceptions are the super corrupt ones. Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Orban, Trump, the office of US president generally, Scott Morrison, etc.
In other words it's not so much good vs. evil as corruption vs integrity.
But isn't good implied in integrity and evil in corrutio n?
Corrupt people are always evil, but evil people are not always corrupt. That said the evil people with integrity are usually just racist so maybe my entire assessment is wrong.
lmao spot on. You can have integrity and shitty principles (evil) or integrity and good principles (good), so I don't really see it as corruption vs. integrity.