Posted by hyperfocus on July 27, 2009, at 22:14:58
In reply to Re: Which way does madness find its definition?, posted by Sigismund on July 27, 2009, at 19:47:11
Sounds interesting - I'll have to look it up. Certainly it's a terrible act of abuse, much worse than physical assault. It also insulates the abuser from blame - the victim believes that it's their own flaws at fault. It can take a long time for the victim to realize that the one deserving blame is not herself but the attacker.
Despite the cost in human suffering, I believe in the request to forgive our enemies. Maybe they were humiliated in their life by someone. It's not that they shouldn't have to take responsibility and pay for their actions, but incubating hatred and ill wishes and schemes of revenge against them seems to just perpetuate the evil. I'm not surprised by the theological notion that there is one original source of all evil which spread out and infected humanity like a virus.
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