History contains abundant, well-documented cases of ordinary people participating in atrocities without coercion. Most people will act decently in low-pressure environments and will act badly under certain incentives, authority structures, or group dynamics. There is no way to know what a person's threshold is until it's tested, but it can be assumed that most people have a low threshold.

Parent was implying “all” humans crave this power over others. This is patently false.

“Most” people won’t act badly to attain this power, “some” will. Being placed into a position and choosing harm is not the same as pursuing it.

That is absolutely against the evidence, but yes people do like to think they are naturally righteous and good.

What evidence is there that ALL humans crave power over other humans?

We're literally animals, evolved for dominance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dominance_hierarchy_sp...

One could try to argue that some of us are special exceptions. But, there's no evidence for that.

(The delightfully ironic humor of it is that people who presumably have your same point of view are down-voting me into negative)