i can't explain this by giving myself as an example. because i never claimed to be a good person. but i've seen plenty of living examples of it around me.
in my opinion the reason for this isn't that they're evil by birth. it's that after a while they start connecting cause and effect. getting ingratitude in return the more good you do, being used the more you sacrifice, losing out the more honest you are... at some point i think a feeling like "screw it, if being good doesn't pay off, then forget it" forms in a person's head.
maybe they don't really become merciless. maybe they just go numb. because a person who gets wounded in the same spot over and over eventually learns to protect themselves. from the outside it looks like they've lost their conscience, but really they've just lost their expectations and their feelings.
and that's the most dangerous transformation of all. you get used to the wickedness of wicked people, but when people who were once good give up, it tells you so much more.
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