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thinking about this again
"original sin" might be one of the most useful pieces of cultural technology ever conceived. sociopaths and narcissists, the two types of people running rampant and ruining everything, are nearly incapable of admitting fault. they cannot acknowledge their own capacity for evil. everything is always someone else's fault. in their heads, they lead sinless, blameless lives
if your culture lives with the idea of original sin, and it's strange and weird to deny your original sin, you can easily detect and weed out sociopaths and narcissists. whether you're calling them heretics for denying original sin or understanding that they're sociopaths doesn't matter. it gives an absolutely trivial way for even the slowest to suss out fundamentally evil people that live camouflaged in the modern world
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" is a verse to ward off sociopaths, like the cross to a vampire