Comment by trod1234

Is it really a surprise that evil people lie?

If you know how to recognize evil people, this doesn't come as a surprise, and there are so many because society has been changed to protect them.

You recognize evil people by their blindness to the consequences of their destructive actions and the resistance to repeat such similar actions.

That kind of blindness is almost always accompanied by false justification, false reasoning, omission, or clever dissembling, or gaslighting to introduce indirection between accountability (reality) and their actions.

There is a short progression from complacency (the banality of evil) to the radical evil. This used to be an important part of history class in public education.