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and, according to the criteria of our moral world view, in the

position to evaluate the guilt of these others for actions they

performed within pathocracy’s collective madness? Judging

them in accordance with traditional legal regulations would

constitute reverting to the imposition of normal man’s force

upon psychopathic individuals, i.e. to the initial position which

engendered pathocracy to begin with. Is subjecting them to

vindictive justice worth prolonging the duration of pathocracy

for even a single year, let alone an unspecified time? Would

eliminating a certain number of psychopaths significantly di-

minish these anomalies’ burden upon society’s gene pool and

contribute toward a solution to this problem?

Unfortunately, the answer is no!

People with various psychological deviations have always

existed in every society on earth. Their way of life is always

some form of predation upon society’s economic creativity,

since their own creative capabilities are generally substandard.

Whoever plugs into this system of organized parasitism gradu-

ally loses whatever limited capacity for legal work he might

have had.

This phenomenon and its brutality are actually maintained

by the threat of legal retaliation or, even worse, of retribution

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on the part of the enraged masses. Dreams of revenge distract a

society’s attention from understanding the bio-psychological

essence of the phenomenon and stimulate the moralizing inter-

pretations whose results we are already familiar with. This

would make it more difficult to find a solution to the present

dangerous situation and would similarly complicate any possi-

bilities of solving the problem of burdening society’s gene pool

with psychological anomalies with a view to future genera-

tions. These problems, however, both present and future, can

be solved if we approach them with an understanding of their

naturalistic essence and a comprehension of the nature of those

people who commit substantial evil.

Legal retribution would be a repetition of the Nuremberg er-

ror. That judgment upon war criminals could have been a

never-to-be repeated opportunity to show the world the entire

psychopathology of the Hitlerian system, with the person of the

“Fuehrer” at the head. That would have led to a faster and

deeper disabusement of the Nazi tradition in Germany. Such

conscious exposure of the operations of pathological factors on

a macrosocial scale would have reinforced the process of psy-

chological rehabilitation for Germans and the world as a whole

by means of the naturalistic categories applicable to that state

of affairs. That would also have constituted a healthy precedent

for illuminating and stifling other pathocracies’ operations.

What actually happened is that psychiatrists and psycholo-

gists succumbed all too easily to the pressures of their own

emotions and political factors, their judgments giving short

shrift to the actual pathological properties of both the majority

of the defendants and of Nazism as a whole. Several famous

individuals with psychopathic features or other deviations were

hanged or sentenced to prison terms. Many facts and data

which could have served the purposes adduced in this work

were hanged and imprisoned along with these individuals. We

can thus easily understand why pathocrats were so eager to

achieve this precise result. We are not allowed to repeat such

errors, since the results make it more difficult to comprehend

the essence of macrosocial pathological phenomena, and they

thereby limit the possibilities of stifling their internal causation.

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In today’s real world situation, there is only one scientifi-

cally and morally justified solution which could remedy our

current plight of nations and also furnish a proper beginning for

solving the problem of societies’ genetic burden with a view to

the future. That would be an appropriate law based upon the

best possible understanding of macrosocial pathological phe-

nomena and their causes, which would limit pathocrats’ re-

sponsibility to those cases alone (usually of a criminal sadistic

nature) in which it is hard to accept the inability to discern the

meaning of such an act. Nothing else could enable the societies

of normal people to take over power and liberate the internal

talents which could ensure a nation’s return to normal life.

Such an act of forgiveness is in fact justified by nature,

since it is derived from a recognition of the psychological cau-

sation governing a person while committing evil, both within

the scope of our cognition and outside the area we have been

able to understand. This scope accessible to scientific cognition