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It's not "I suffered so you should too," it's "I suffered and no one else should ever have to."
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I read Count of Monte Cristo probably when I was about 10-12. But this passage stuck in my head forever.
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I’ve experienced a lot I didn’t/don’t deserve & at times it almost broke me. When asked how I kept/keep going, I answer that if sharing my experiences can help others, at least there’s a silver lining & something good. Until now, I never considered how my perspective is the exact opposite of this.
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Once made you're either just another abuser or what he called a Transcender.
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The third option is to just suffer the damage and try to deal with it.
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Transcender is great term for it. And should be the goal of our society across the board. If we're not making things better for others, wtf are we even doing here?
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Exactly. Andrew once honoured me with that title: his work is a testimony to how we can both identify the predators but strive for a world without them.
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"If I can choose for someone else to suffer the way I have suffered, I feel slightly less powerless in my suffering. Now give me your lunch money, Billy."
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And on that path you'll only ever feel fear of someone taking your lunch money from you again, laughing at you again, walking out on you again. But if you make it so nobody's lunch money is taken, nobody is victimized, everybody is supported, then you won't have yo feel that fear anymore. Here's $2.
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You should run parenting classes.
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It's more like, "If you suffer I can save/make money, so suck it up."
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I really wish more people got this
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When you suffer from too much knowledge it’s call wisdom. And wisdom makes you suffer empathy.
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