"So just thank god that you will never have to know what it feels like to be them."

Here here!

I had extensive psychotherapy after my own childhood experiences. I was also very much loved by my family. Yet I still know there is much anger and violence in me lurking at a deep level as a consequence of those experiences and I imagine that it will always be a part of me.

I'm all grown up now and surrounded by loving people. Luckily for me I've learned about love and compassion as well as about sadistic cruelty. As such those darker feelings will never have a chance to be unleashed on anything or anyone smaller and weaker than I am.

Who would I have become if I had not learned about love as well as violence? I do not know and I doubt that I would want to either.