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“Growing up in poverty never did me any harm” insists man psychologically compelled to wish similar financial hardship on others (newsthump.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If your only justification for letting others suffer needless hardship is, “I experienced the same, and I turned out fine”, then spoiler alert: you did not, in fact, “turn out fine”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

this is more evident in people who advocate for spanking children. "i was spanked and i turned out fine." yeah nah.