"the path to light is thru the darkness;" once strong men start looking at the darkest actions of other men, develop the will & courage to act, and do something about it - then the world will stop being so grim;

for example, criminals are packed away into prisons, because people in the community where the criminals come from don't want to deal with the conditions that created the criminal; putting criminals out of sight is a patch-up job that keeps the conditions going;

in fact, criminals become better at hiding and at doing their crimes, as they get the PhD in crime in prisons; the most ambitious ones rise to the level of government officials!

some traits to recognize in ourselves: