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Hurting loved ones

Hurting loved ones

People constantly do things to us that disregard the common sense of how people should behave around people they claim to care about.

We expect people close to us to show us kindness. Yet, humans frequently have feelings that are so intolerable and complex that they develop urges to pass them on to others. Put otherwise, humans can end up behaving cruelly to soothe their own sufferings by making someone near them suffer in their stead.

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