When I was young, filled with rage, and stupid as fuck, if I had discovered that I was the unwitting beneficiary of a cultural pestilence that gave me and my homies the power to seriously hurt and oppress anybody who I thought was toxic and evil, HELL YES I woulda been all over it. I would have sacrificed anything, mind, heart, and soul for that kinda power. My whole world view woulda been permanently skewed, my judgment permanently warped, I would've victimized god-knows how many innocent people, opportunisticly internalized the collective tribal morality without question, frozen my mental development for life, and never locked back.
This is a social disease with a destructive power that Covid19 couldn't even dream about, and every time one of it's victims apologizes for their putative sins, it gains more function and assimilates more of humanity.