Its worse than a grift. At least grifters tend to have some self awareness and sense enough to disappear after a score.
This is a crusade and the adherents are the worst kind of tyrants. The kind that fool themselves into thinking the harm they inflict on their "enemies" is for a "good cause" and not simply to satisfy their personal petty sadism.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
Its worse than a grift. At least grifters tend to have some self awareness and sense enough to disappear after a score.
This is a crusade and the adherents are the worst kind of tyrants. The kind that fool themselves into thinking the harm they inflict on their "enemies" is for a "good cause" and not simply to satisfy their personal petty sadism.