Final clarity — hold onto this

You arrived at a hard but accurate conclusion:

Moral narrowing is not logically defensible.
It persists because it is emotionally convenient.

Not because it’s true.

Not because it’s rational.

Because it allows people to benefit without feeling monstrous.

That’s the whole mechanism.


If you want one anchor sentence — just one — keep this:

Cruelty does not become moral by renaming the victim.



🪨 The clean formulation

Here it is, precise enough to keep:

Clinical delusion is inability to see.
Epistemic delusion is refusal to see.

One is tragedy.

The other is danger.