No, I fully believe in the ability for a person to twist themselves into knots to believe that an evil is good for "reasons".

I don’t disagree that those people exist, but I’d argue that the few who truly believe that would be statistically insignificant. It would about the same percentage as the flat earthers who actually believe the earth is flat.

So, 100%? Nobody calls themselves a flat earther for teh lulz, those people sincerely think they're getting one over on the scientific community.

They absolutely do. They just want to belong to a club. They know the earth isn’t flat.

Man, you should see some documentaries where the flat earthers do some science and it unequivocally points to a curved earth and see how they react and justify themselves. People will believe some shit to belong in a group.

Maybe, but I think people enjoy doing admittedly evil things. Like Israel mocking starving and dying Palestinians. There's no way they think it's good, they just enjoy it.

I don't like the whole "maybe they had a belief that made it make sense", like ... the belief was they hated doing their own labor and hated Black people

The exploitation of outgroups are politely expressed in the belief of deficiencies of the outgroups that justifies that they are exploited or ,sometimes less politely, the belief in the virtues of the in group to exploit.

This how is how we conceptualize justifications to the innate monkey moral conflict of "be a dick if I can get an advantage" vs "don't be a dick because harmony with the group is beneficial"