> Most Mormons I’ve met are so wholesome and kind that I think they would legitimately choose to work in the FBI or IC to make the world a better place.
Yes, they would, and very often they'd be so convinced of their righteousness that they’d use their power as government agents to run over anything that thet saw as standing in the way of their vision of a better place.
If you look at the history of abuses by the FBI, almost none of them were venal and corrupt, they mostly were just putting a vision of a path to a better world ahead of things like due process.
This is exactly the kind of thing motivating the saying “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. ”
This reminds me of a book I read a while back where a CIA guy was talking about problems they had with a newer generation of officers.
IIRC, one of the field officers was interviewing another female officer's agent (agent being the local national spy) and when they got on the topic of the work he had done with female officer, he said "We haven't done anything, all she does is try to convert me to christianity". She was removed thereafter.
Seems to me that a secular mind is probably best for the objective reasoning required for areas like the FBI, CIA.
Yes, they would, and very often they'd be so convinced of their righteousness that they’d use their power as government agents to run over anything that thet saw as standing in the way of their vision of a better place.
If you look at the history of abuses by the FBI, almost none of them were venal and corrupt, they mostly were just putting a vision of a path to a better world ahead of things like due process.
This is exactly the kind of thing motivating the saying “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. ”