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From your standards, are abusive people or those who cause trauma/discrimination “evil”? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 21 hours ago by AuroraGlamour@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It made me wonder, hearing from certain people who faced discrimination and harassment. They were hurt every single day intentionally and some of them had PTSD caused by their harm and became incredibly jumpy and traumatized.

Would that make the person who caused the harm evil?

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago

I have a parent who will intentionally set his children up against each other to make them dislike each other. Why? Because he finds it entertaining.

He would take or break something you had, and blame one of the other siblings. When he got called out for it, he’d threaten with a beating. Physical abuse happened, but not nearly as often as psychological. And it was all so he could gain trust, power or just be entertained.

To me, that’s an evil person. Intentionally hurting others and taking joy from it, is pretty bad. But it’s a whole new level of evil when it’s your kids.