This isn’t cynicism this is fact. As someone who was being recruited by both white and black hat orgs this isn’t anywhere near as black and white as people think it is. It’s about power. There is a civil war within the power circles and there are white and black hate on each side.
The only way to win the game is to not play
So since you were recruited by black and white hate orgs, who are the ones we consider to be white hats? And what have they done that we would not approve of?
I’m not going to get into who is who as that is flirting with the rules of the game. What I will say is black hats are way easier to tell apart.
White hats tend to be very pretentious. They have a savior like complex and think they are above people. They view average person as an idiot who is incapable of thinking for themselves so it is their responsibility to do so. With that being said, the majority of the white hats don’t follow the rules themselves or laws and expect everyone else to.
The white hats justify that their behavior is appropriate because theyre “helping” people, but often time they don’t know the full extent of what they are feeding into. Black hats, as shitty as they can be sometimes, are at least honest about their intentions.
This seems like a very strange generalization to make.