From Squashing Bugs to Squashing People
How abuse starts.
Some people are just abusive but I think it can be learned as well. It may be called something else like “play,” “learning,” or “adventure.” It is in our nature to poke to see how something will react. As children we are either corrected or not. If not then it grows and grows. The person keeps poking and poking and doesn’t ever stop. Controlling bugs, torturing and killing them starts the process and brings out happiness and power to the abuser.
Something in me, a knowing, tells me this is truth.
It goes from having dogs, cats, turtles, snakes, horses and getting them to bend to your will to doing the same with people. Controlling others is a big bump to the abusers self-worth.
Something in me, a knowing, tells me this is truth. Because while the person thinks they are training an entity they are really bending it to their will and abuse could be a sub-product of the training.
Before you walk away to go to another writer, hear me out!
Thanks for staying!
