>My favorite thing about psychopaths: They'll happily ignore a long-term loss in order to have a short-term gain.
That's a really interesting take, as I've recently been considering something similar regarding how satan lies using God's words. It's by stopping short of saying everything. to push drugs as an example, you tell people all about all the fun experiences they'll have, and don't mention anything about addiction and the impacts upon later life. It's basically colonialism: The self-proclaimed "masters" will offer power to anybody who is willing to follow them, focusing entirely upon everything they can accomplish with said power and mentioning nothing about the price that must be eventually paid for selling the free will God gave you.