>>6286

Doesn't this also explain the extreme sociopathic tendencies in the leadership of communist parties, albeit they're worse because commies explicitly justify murders within their group in the name of vague ideological purity and far-off utilitarian heaven? Been reading up on early commies, Bolsheviks, Revolution, Red Terror and subsequent Great Purge lately, the dynamic seems comparable to what you posit. And this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Nechayev#Catechism_of_a_Revolutionary is basically an exemplary altruistic consequentialist.