what does it matter if someone started off in earnest or was conscripted later?  it's actually easier to corrupt the good then it is to birth the bad through and through.  maybe lady gaga started off as a musician who had enough talent to be seen, but not enough to stay. so she takes a bribe or two to inject a lyric, or pour blood on screen, or hail satan. maybe she believes it, maybe not. either way. she did the thing. this psychoanalysis we do of political figures wastes everyone's time supposing about that which only god himself can know (the heart) when what we need to focus on are people's actions. i'd wager to say most people don't actively want to see someone suffer for its own sake. however, pay them enough and they're willing to let you suffer comparatively little. this is the "greater good" fallacy.  sure, "the government" probably has breeding factories trying to make the next perfect assassin or tayoir swift. but how much easier would it be to put those resources towards monitoring podunk town bars for unknown singers hoping to make rent? "hey taylor, we'll give you $10000 to sing about how bad this normal masculine trait of your ex was". bam, next thing you know she's getting paid to hug a foot ball player and sing about feminism. she might not even believe it herself, yet there she is. if you have any doubt, look at all the otherwise unwilling covid jabbies who were like " nah. i'm not doing it", but when offered $100, well "hey, $100 is only $200 short of an xbox!" if you ever wonder how evil the world really is, look inside and realize what you're capable of. for most of us, the only reason we haven't done the worst evils is a matter of opportunity, not morality.
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