Heroes and Sadism

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Absolutely correct.
Yet
It's more than merely the permitted outlet for the sadism of the [[righteous]].
The point of society, to these individuals, is to act out a cosmic play. All the roles must be filled. They want to fill the [[avenger]] role or some equivalent, hence there must be a victim to be avenged, hence there must be a criminal producing a victim. If society doesn't produce enough criminals, it's not acting out the cosmic play properly, and the [[righteous]] will subtly encourage criminals - or not so subtly, if necessary - until all the roles are filled.

 E.g. the reason crime reports appear in the news so often is so that individuals know that [criminal] is a valid role, a way to be acknowledged by society. They genuinely think society will fail in some metacosmic way without criminals to help vitalize it.
 Think of female conformity and tradition. If there are cops, there must always be cops. Okay. But if there are criminals, there must always be criminals too. Worse: having cops is obviously pointless if there are no criminals, but there must always be cops. Because conformity.

As per usual, we get to narcissism. Victim and persecutor form two points of a triangle, and the third is saviour or hero.
By inspection, a persecutor needs a victim.
Less obvious: the victim needs a persecutor. Otherwise they would secure their shit. Security is always affordable. They're not buying it because they want to be victimized, to get their v-card punched. Prey morality.
The hero needs the victim, the hero needs the persecutor. The hero needs a victim or they can't display heroism. Check: if there are too many heroes and not enough victims, the heroes don't go all, [yay justice] they fight amongst themselves. Victim supply not meeting victim demand.

Sadly that is a rare occurrence, and not because criminals can't be suppressed. (Ref: El Salvador.)

It's a rare occurrence because it's so hard to keep heroes acting heroic if there's a shortage of victimization. They need victims so badly they will create victims themselves if necessary.

 Put another way, if heroes demand victims (and they assuredly do) that makes them identical to persecutors, they're just pretending to be on the other side.

 The hero will become the persecutor, because Christianity is correct: the three points of the trinity are all in fact the same person. God isn't man, but hero is victim. Victim is criminal. Criminal is hero. The criminal saves the victim from the appalling state of not being victimized. The victim cajoled for and tempted the crime; they are an accomplice. All those tragic origin stories are startlingly relevant IRL, as the [hero] becomes a [hero] due to suffering irreparable damage.
 The hero isn't trying to save you, he's trying to save himself. He's not only not selfless, he's utterly self-absorbed. If you don't need saving, he will deliberately break your leg. If you don't need saving, then he doesn't need saving, and he will never accept that he did the damage to himself. If you don't need saving, how is he supposed to save himself through you? Hence, you <b>must</b> need saving, by hook or by crook.

 Cops seek government funding because it causes perverse effects. Causing policing to increase crime is the point.

 My interpretation of Bukele is that the murder got so bad that suffering was in fact decreasing, as the dead can no longer suffer. Without crime, the suffering will have to be made up in other ways.
 It is absurdly unlikely that Bukele is suppressing crime because crime is unjust. 

 

 A security guard is not a cop. Not a hero. Done correctly, his job is extremely monotonous, as nobody tries anything.
 If there are no victims, there are no heroes.
 Further, he is, you know, paid for his work. Imagine that: showing your appreciation for someone using, like, money. That they can spend on themselves. As opposed to parades, which are not only useless, but aggressively boring.
 If he's paid up front to save you, it's not heroism, it's a job.

 The above is not actually rocket science. Wriiting it down is supremely autistic, but knowing it is universal.
 That is: the heroes know implicitly that it's not about saving anyone. If someone says they want to be a hero, it's not admirable, it's a confession. You should jail them. Hang by the neck until dead.
 The hero doesn't act for pay because what they're doing isn't worth anything IRL. If they demanded pay you would hire security to cut down on costs, and, then, whoops, no crimes, no victims, no heroes.
 
 A fortiori: the hero [[selflessly]] forgoes payment because Communism. The point is to undercut and crowd out effective solutions. The same way that if the government offered cars for free, it would be all but impossible to buy a quality car, because no productive firm can compete with free.