The Federation was a hotbed of psychopaths and perverted criminals.
Was it purely because of cultural factors? Not necessarily.
Among the perverted serial killers, quite a few were first-generation immigrants. They had immigrated to the Federation from other countries as adults, then gradually developed psychological disorders and criminal impulses, eventually putting those impulses into action.
Culture might have been one contributing factor, but the social environment played a greater role.
Most countries had clear standards of right and wrong. What was good and what was bad were made very clear to the people.
But in the Federation, concepts of right and wrong and personal values had been confused and blurred.
If independent individuals could not quickly adapt to the Federation's society, their minds would become twisted and distorted, eventually turning them into psychopaths.
Because here, you had no idea what was right.
A teacher molested a female student, yet the lawyer's defense turned the victim into a suspect! "She lured the teacher into making a mistake by threatening to demand that he raise her grades" was the defense lawyer's argument, and he successfully used his abilities to convince the judge.
He made the judge believe that the teacher had indeed done something inappropriate, but that none of it had come from his own intent. He had merely been lured into it and made a mistake that any man could make.
A business owner forged documents and embezzled the workers' pensions. The workers who went to confront the company owner were instead locked in jail on the grounds that they had trespassed on private property.
Concepts of right and wrong, morality, and ethics had been smashed to dust in this capital-first society.
Here, there was no absolute right or wrong. As long as you had money, even if you killed someone,