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Originally Posted by John Mercier
You mean people that have been physically abused are more often to take on a victim-mentality? And that they may act out to reassert their control?
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No. I mean that they conceive of human relationships in terms of pain and cruelty and then go on to imitate what was done to them, perhaps in worse form. Same for cruelty to animals. The evidence is that very early experiences of abuse rather than love change the brain chemistry.