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Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So, considering this is Lemmy I'll clarify. I'm not talking about your neighbor who voted for Trump or your uncle who's always been a dick. I'm talking about coming in contact with a deep down evil scary human. I've only met one that I can think of. When I was 12 or 13 I spent a ton of time at my best friends house. He lived on a big beautiful rural property with his dad, a few brothers and always one or two random dudes. His dad was a good electrician and a biker. So, he always had friends/associates hanging around. So one day I was staying over for a long weekend and we met a new guy his dad was housing for a week or two. Dude was a real full fledged nazi. Had a swastika under his eye and tats all over most of his body. He was from California I guess. He was "working" with my buddies dad for awhile. Anyway, the main interaction I had with him was when he pulled my friend and I in for a sermon. We were going to go hunt squirrels and do rural kid shit. He stopped us outside and had us sit on the porch. Spent about 20 minutes explaining all the things youd imagine a nazi explains. Moslty about catholics, jews and blacks. My friends dad came out after awhile and told him we didn't need to hear that shit. He sent us away, but, I never forgot the look this dude had in his eyes. It was like the look of complete bordem mixed with extreme anger all the time.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I did get to meet a sociopath once while working construction. Some of the guys at the company liked to go to music festivals, and you meet some odd folks there. Well one of the guys made friends with this dude who was down on his luck for some reason or another and he got hired on with us.

He was manipulative, but not very good at it. He would shower some people with compliments, like constantly and for pointless things. But if he didn't think you were worth sucking up to he would absolutely refuse to do anything you asked (which he tried to do to the company second before he learned he owned part of the company). He would work slow, was on drugs frequently, and spent any money he got as soon as he could. Money he usually got a week early because he couldn't afford food since he would spend all his money.

Anyway not long after we fired him we learned he had been in prison for sexually assulting a minor, and was back in jail for something else.

Thankfully I wasn't important enough to get his attention, so I never got to interact with him directly.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This dude:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Broadcasting

Makes Trump look like Gandhi. His kids won't talk to him. Sued his son-in-law. Sued all of his partners. Grade A narcissist.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How did you meet him?

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Probably tinder

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Through family.

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago

I haven't met anyone I'd consider truly evil, sometimes a bit messed up in the head...There are people I unconsciously stay outside the orbit of, though, for some reason I can't fully put into words. It could be for any reason, probably social anxiety...

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've met some low level sociopaths and some obvious narcissists. And a lot of people who were simple amoral when it came to using and abusing others for their own ends.

Nobody who was skinning cats for pleasure though. I interviewed a few Nazis for school projects. I would not call them evil.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

It took me WAY too long to realize how bad the most evil person I know is. To him, though, it’s not evil. As far as he’s concerned, everything he does is fair, reasonable, and justified.

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