Peak Stockholm syndrome.

Although the real problem with these people is not that they're able to rationalize the evil that's done to them into a fictional good, but their bizarre psychological need to force everybody else into accepting their fantasy and give in to the evil.

My conclusion is that when it's someone who is actually at the receiving end of the fleecing, it's a psychiatric condition, like the aforementioned syndrome. When it's someone at the profiting end, then it's pure malice.

Although we know that the Devil's best trick is always to convince everybody he doesn't exist in the first place.
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