people who look at the Nazis at Aushwitz and say "I could never do something like that" are the most dangerous people of all.
To be good you must first understand about the levels of evil and depravity you are capeable of.
It takes courage to sit down and try and put yourself in the place of a camp guard and imagine yourself doing the things they did and accepting that you yourself under the right/wrong circumstances you would have done exactly the same thing.
Again with the Nazis at Auschwitz.
All my life people have told me I'll go along with the herd, as if it's a moral failing to do so, and then when I don't they're confused and upset with me and unwilling to have a rational discussion.
It's not a big mystery. People just respond to immediate incentives. It doesn't mean they're secretly evil. They're just short term emotional thinkers who like profit and pleasure and dislike privation and pain. They'll gladly pay you Thursday for a hamburger today, no matter how usurious your interest on the burgerloan. The quality of the peasantry which sees it live hand to mouth in a state of perpetual hock is the same as that which sees the herd mortgage itself and its children into servitude in exchange for a comparatively meaningless, but immediate, benefit or reprieve from discomfort.
In that sense, although you could say they've been victimized by predators, the masses are getting precisely what they choose. It's fair to ask why people should be spared from their own inability to make good choices, as if some benevolent authority is obligated to swoop in, save shortsighted idiots from themselves, and deliver unto them everything a bunch of useless idiots could dream of, while they invest nothing to get it and sacrifice nothing for it.
Say a whole bunch of people end up living in foilhat dystopia. 15 minute vegans etc. It's bad and they're oppressed. You could call it evil. But kinda, if they took every step that led them there, they deserve it and you could call it justice, no?
