Well, the first steps have to be taken by them. They need to learn to come down from comic-book-villain rhetoric. There can be no accommodation made with "I hope to see your family raped and killed".
I submit that the incentive to offer is that as long as they keep being insane they will not be allowed at the levers of power.
If they can hide them well enough to behave like actual people instead of fanatical psychopaths they can be bargained with, if, once they revert to type, they're ejected from whatever positions of power they hold.
You can be as much of an arsehole as you want in your internal monologue, I don't care, as long as you provide a response to stimuli that's within civilised bounds.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
How on earth can you put things back together when this is the kind of creature we are dealing with?
Well, the first steps have to be taken by them. They need to learn to come down from comic-book-villain rhetoric. There can be no accommodation made with "I hope to see your family raped and killed".
I submit that the incentive to offer is that as long as they keep being insane they will not be allowed at the levers of power.
But then they'll just hide their true feelings.
If they can hide them well enough to behave like actual people instead of fanatical psychopaths they can be bargained with, if, once they revert to type, they're ejected from whatever positions of power they hold.
You can be as much of an arsehole as you want in your internal monologue, I don't care, as long as you provide a response to stimuli that's within civilised bounds.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."