Question comes as a kind of addition to one I asked awhile back. It was about having met a truly evil person. I can tell the story again if anyone is interested but as a young teen I interacted with a guy in the Aryan brotherhood from California several times.
“Best of intentions”
My man, you joined the military, not a bakery. And if you joined the American one, even if you’ve only had a diet of strict pro-Western imperialism propaganda, you KNOW you’re signing up to kill. And they don’t “have your ass” as much as God does, and whatever punishment they would’ve gotten is certainly not as bad as Hell, but these people don’t believe in anything in earnest.