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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3579189" data-attributes="member: 41584">And the vast majority of them seem to be based entirely on fear.  They make themselves less scared by hurting other people, and are completely convinced that other people would hurt them just as fast and freely.  People who scare, intimidate or threaten them, even people who just make them uncomfortable, like women, blacks, foreigners or gays, are the targets of their attacks.  Fear becomes aggression, as they lash out.Studies have shown that the majority of these people felt powerless at some point in their childhood, and have come to associate 'power' and 'confidence' and 'manliness' with acts of aggression.  By bullying others, by terrorizing others, by 'asserting their strength,' they try to compensate for their own frustrations, their own feelings of inadequacy and irrelevance.They then raise new generations into the same situation, children who grew up in fear of those stronger than themselves, who grow up to 'pay it forward' and terrorize those weaker than themselves, saying to themselves, 'nobody is every going to be mean to me again!'The drug-dealer who doesn't 'use' is a prime example.  He rationalizes that 'there's always gonna be a market for this stuff' and sells a product that destroys lives.  It isn't hurting him, and he 'knows' from his own personal example of not using that being exposed to the stuff doesn't guarantee a person's destruction.  And so, to him, this is 'proof' that his customers are only destroying themselves.  He takes no responsibility for handing them the weapon with which they destroy themselves, and quite possibly their families with them.What I sell is killing people?  Well, it doesn't *have* to, and it's not *my* fault if they kill themselves / each other.  Free will and all that.  I'm just a businessman.  Heroin doesn't kill people.  People who use to much heroin kill themselves.  It's their own fault for dying, because they are weak and stupid.  It's *always* the victims fault.  Never the person who pushed them into the oven and watched them burn.In the real world, these people are simply supremely selfish.  The effects of their actions only matter so far as they impact themselves, or people that 'matter' to them.  So long as it isn't happening in *their* backyard, they could give a crap that a thousand people are starving to death every minute.  It's not their problem.  Compassion, empathy, charity, all that stuff is for wusses and pansies and pinko commies.</blockquote>

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