The 4 Stages of Tragic Degeneration
- The Justifiable Compromise: Crossing an ethical line for a noble cause.
- The Rationalization Trap: Constructing an intellectual justification for increasing brutality.
- The Alienation Threshold: Destroying genuine allies in pursuit of paranoid control.
- The Nihilistic Abyss: Complete moral collapse in the climactic reckoning.
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