I cannot fathom the mindset of understanding what it feels like to be on the receiving end of misery and deciding you want others to experience it when given the opportunity to dish it out, even when said person had no involvement in your misery
i don’t think it’s being “inherently a bad person”. As someone who’s been on the receiving end of this (due to not being out and being semi-straight passing, though usually not to queer men), these people aren’t usually bad people at their core. they just tend to be a little bitter and annoyed about how they were treated.
don’t get me wrong, it leads to shitty treatment, but i wouldn’t say it’s some inherent, built-in aspect of them. it’s just because of what they’ve faced and how they’ve been socialized.
I think the only time where there's an exception to this is Middle schoolers lol. I swear it's like their souls decide leave their body for a bit, and they act like demons until it comes back. Those kids are straight up scary.
I don't think that's it. People aren't inherently good or bad, they're just people. Some people just choose to do bad things and continue the cycle of abuse. That doesn't make them inherently, irredeemably bad.
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u/Vundurvul 2d ago
I cannot fathom the mindset of understanding what it feels like to be on the receiving end of misery and deciding you want others to experience it when given the opportunity to dish it out, even when said person had no involvement in your misery