Of course. But I was questioning the obvious. Why are people abusive? Where does that come from? It's often pointed out that animals get along better.Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Well, yes, you were lucky to not be abused - wouldn't you agree to that?
Shouldn't the focus be on the why of the thing, other than just declaring that people are rotten? Why are they rotten? Where's the foot that got in the door?I think Kelly was speaking in general terms about abuse, and I was responding in general terms about how those abused respond.
And?Esoterix wrote: Does asking make me suspect as an abuser?
And actually, I'm not surprised. Nor do I expect you'll ever seek an escape from what I see as a glass prison. Eventually you'll follow the others into the ether and your body will return to the Great Fertilizer System.Actually that exact question does make me suspicious.
And the why of that? Have you pondered what might have gone haywire with the human psyche? Where will humanity be in the future, say another hundred years, if it all hangs together that long? What, a madhouse of clawing and scratching at each other's throats, everybody too insane to even use clubs to beat their own people to death?Really though, in a philosophical sense of the term (which is different from the legal sense of the term) we have all abused people and we have all been abused by people. People are abusive by nature, but they don't generally mean to be.
At the rate it's going it doesn't look very promising.