I would estimate the intended reaction to be: “Well I don’t act like these despicable characters!” and then “Oh wait—maybe I have..”. To me it seems like a tale of the bad we can do, when we aren’t thinking about it. Or to put another way, the difficulty of making our behavior consistent with our morality. I see little evidence that the underlying morality is any different from the west.
I would estimate the intended reaction to be: “Well I don’t act like these despicable characters!” and then “Oh wait—maybe I have..”. To me it seems like a tale of the bad we can do, when we aren’t thinking about it. Or to put another way, the difficulty of making our behavior consistent with our morality. I see little evidence that the underlying morality is any different from the west.