[ SECRET POST #7043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7043 ⌋

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[The Amazing Digital Circus]



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[(Anonymous)]

"Love Interest/Rival/Terrible Parent/BBEG is a mega asshole but it turns out they're lashing out due to ~secret trauma and/or emotional pain~ therefore this grown ass adult totally couldn't help their actions so the good guys have a moral imperative to forgive them"

I see people talk about how decades of this trope in fiction has convinced too many people to repeatedly forgive those in their lives that needn't, and perhaps shouldn't, be forgiven. But I rarely hear the flip side: how it's erroneously convinced many people that if they take it out on others when very upset, everyone else should, will, or must forgive them. And maybe we should talk about that part more...

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[(Anonymous)]

Hm, is that the cause of that? I just figure some people feel entitled to lash out just because they're triggered and haven't learned the tools to manage their dysregulation. I don't know if the expectation of forgiveness has factored in there, it's usually just "you did a thing that triggered me so I will be an asshole to you now!" I'm not even sure the goal is stopping the trigger.

Now, I have run into people who are just consistently awful and use religion/status/relationship as an excuse to abuse others AND use it as the reason they are owed forgiveness. Fictional tropes might have helped this along, but even without them, I think those people are just assholes and would demand forgiveness anyway.

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[(Anonymous)]

At the risk of sounding facetious, I always figured this was much more a symptom of a culture that's been soaking up Protestant Christianity for centuries.