> the amount of harm they're willing to justify goes up. Feels like society in a nutshell.
Neocon society. Socialism is not like that.
Running into the problem that Americans are very bad at defining "socialism" here, meaning anything from social democrat to full Communism, but: there is a strong utilitarian streak in socialist societies that is also vulnerable to "the pain (for you) will be worth it (for someone else)" reasoning.