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Your model of a typical human mind seems fundamentally more charitable than mine.
If you're telepathic, you can feel their pain as your own. That's a game-changer.
Public torture of undesirables pour encourager les autres becomes a REALLY effective technique, don't you think?
I was thinking more along the lines of 'Oh shoot. I really hurt them, didn't I?'
Yes, I know.
However another likely thought would be "Good, it *should* hurt, you're a bad person".
Maybe. However, we have been told that this society is said to be happy and not devolved into a shit-flinging match, I suspect that the way it usually works out is more benign. Or they kill/expel the infidels and our happiness sample is biased.
Leaving aside the credibility issues of such a claim, I can easily imagine a happy society where most people feel good about themselves and each Sunday they all gather in the pubic square to cheer at the burning of the witches who in their evil little hearts doubted the greatness and the benevolence of X. Pick X to suit.
You can savor it! A certain subset of people will find that hurting people has suddenly become more fun than ever.
People who do this might be killed. Is there a reason to think a telepathic society would be wimpy?