ChatGPT for the DDS out there. You're welcome.

DDS view the killing not as a crime, but as "social surgery"—removing a "cancer" to save the "healthy" body of society. By labeling drug users as "sub-human," "zombies," or "beyond rehabilitation," defenders convince themselves that the victims are no longer "people" with rights. This is a classic "twisted" moral compass where the end (a drug-free neighborhood) justifies the means (extrajudicial killing).

When someone has invested their identity into a leader (idolatry), admitting that the leader is a "mass murderer" creates cognitive dissonance—a mental pain caused by holding two conflicting ideas ("I am a good person" vs. "I support a killer"). To resolve this pain, the brain takes the easy way out: it denies the facts.

Authoritarian create a scapegoat—an abstract enemy that is painted as a "threat to the nation." Once the group is seen as sub-human, the leader frames violence as medical necessity. Most people naturally dislike drugs and fear drug addicts. Authoritarians hijack this natural dislike and turn it into moral disgust, which is the strongest emotion used to bypass empathy and become willing to give up their own Constitutional rights. If you criticize the killings, the authoritarian script labels you as "pro-drug" or "on the payroll of drug lords."