Some persons with power are aware of injustices, and they are careful in what they do with power. But some persons have never known anything but power, and they run headlong down the paths of corruption. They are power mongers.

The first error power mongers make is to acquire the purpose of being cause over everything they can. It's about impossible to be cause over anything without perpetrating injustices, but there is no injustice in being effect. Being cause means control and domination. Power mongers are control freaks. There is no constructive way to control people.

It's impossible to understand what's wrong with being cause without understanding injustice. It seems preposterous that power mongers cannot understand injustice, but they can't. In theory, a person could extrapolate from the wrongs which he experiences and imagine how wrongs occur in other ways. A moral person acquires the ability to extend knowledge from the immediate and apply it to situations which he is not familiar with. But corrupt persons train their minds in other ways, so they cannot think in such a manner. They learn to avoid realities which expose their corruptions, which prevents them from correcting their errors.

It takes power to perpetrate injustices, because the victims try to protect themselves, and power is necessary to overwhelm the victims. The more power corrupters have, the slicker it is to perpetrate injustices. When it gets too slick, there is no concern for the consequences.

The injustices which flow from the use of power require all forms of sin to justify and conceal the injustices. Sin creates reactions which work against justice and destroy life. A pattern and practice of sin becomes psychologically conditioned through repetition. This means that patterns of thought and behavior function on a stimulus-response basis in conflict with rationality.

Power mongers view their own sin in a self-righteous perspective, simply because they identify it with self. What self does must be done, and the necessity is supposed to sanctify it. Any ability to view the consequences to the victims would have a correcting influence. But the mind of a corrupter is trained to not see the consequences, and self-created ignorance blocks out the knowledge which is needed for correcting the wrongs.

Then corrupters paint themselves into a corner where they develop a life-style based on sin which can only be sustained through sin. They can't be reasoned with, because they have no alternative but to sin.

All elements of sin are interdependent; and all elements of morality are interdependent. This means that sin cannot be corrected a little bit at a time. The only correction to sin is repentance, which is a total reversal of moral state.