The basis of all significant sin is the desire to dominate. It starts with the premise that if a person could prevail against others, his problems would be solved.

Related to it is the fact that power is needed to prevail against others. So a value for power develops, and power becomes the positive reinforcement for the conditioned responses of sin.

One of the primary sources of power is status. So strife develops in attempting to seek status, and the attitude of elevated status is pride.

In religion, pride is said to be the source of all sin. The analysis is the same, because pride is the attitude that goes with the desire to dominate.

There are a lot of angles to the subject, but the focus here is domination. Domination is about the same thing as control. Dominators are driven to control. They cannot ignore something which is none of their business, because they are obsessed with controlling it. The drive for a world government and totalitarianism are the largest examples.

There are positions which require a degree of control over something, and domination is the result. It takes the form of purifying. Dominators become purifiers when controlling something. The purifying is nothing but domination, it doesn't really purify.

There is always a double standard to purifying, because power is virtue and powerlessness is sin in the conditioned reactions of corrupted minds. The psychological conditioning of sin walls off minds creating two parts. On one side is good; on the other side is bad. The dichotomy is created by positive and negative reinforcements. Power creates the primary positive reinforcement; so everything associated with power is good.

Powerlessness and vulnerability create negative reactions, because truth and criticism flow directly and indirectly from the victims of sin. The victims are therefore viewed as the sources of evil.

Perpetrators and victims are thereby reversed in the reactions and assumptions of corrupted persons.

Domination creates counter-intentions. First domination creates conflict with other persons, because no one wants to be dominated. The conflict results in opposition to the intentions of other persons. When repeated, it becomes a conditioned habit.

The developed habit of counter-intention jumps over objective realities and looks only at the intentions of others. If an opponent wanted to give them a gold brick, they would have to oppose it, because only the intention is looked at, not the realities.

Counter-intention becomes a substitute for rationality, because corrupted persons cannot trust their own judgements or other persons. But if defeating opponents is their purpose, all they have to do is oppose their opponents intentions regardless of any realities.