OK, so mistreatment (meaning emotional or physical abuse of an individual by others) sometimes produces a violent person. Other times, it does not -- there have been many cases of poeple surviving violence and trauma and sublimating those experiences to become better at good solutions -- one example being the author of Infidel. Also it seems clear that false data about the adviseability of violent solutions gets involved also -- whether from religious indoctrination, cultural pressure, or videos and advertising and movies. Some people don't process this sort of blatantly false information well and end up dramatizing it instead of putting it in the same perspective as fairy tales.

'Sup with that?


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